Thoor Ballylee
Thoor Ballylee Castle is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in… Read more…
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Thoor Ballylee Castle is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats's Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats.
It has been described as "the most important public building in Ireland" by late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
Source: Wikipedia
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Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoor_Ballylee
Address H91 D8F2, Ireland
Coordinates 53°6'11.238" N, 8°46'30.441" W
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