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Co Galway, Thor Ballylee

23/1/2016

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 Thor Ballylee, a tower house in County Galway, is thought to date from the Fifteenth Century when many tower houses like this were built across Ireland. Picturesquely situated beside a bridge at a bend in a river, it is most famous today for its association with the poet WB Yates who restored the house in the early 1920’s and used it as a summer house for ten years.

The following poem is inscribed on the wall of the  building:
I, the poet William Yeats,
With old mill boards and sea-green slates,
And smithy work from the Gort forge,
Restored this tower for my wife George.
And may these characters remain
When all is ruin once again.
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