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  • Yeats Tower – Thoor Ballylee, Galway

    Yeats Tower – Thoor Ballylee, Galway

    The Hiberno-Norman tower, Thoor Ballylee, is located quite close to Coole Park in County Galway. The tower is a fine and well-preserved fourteenth-century tower. Its major significance is its close association with Irish Nobel laureate for Literature, the poet WB Yeats. It was here the poet spent summers with his family. He was inspired to…