Thoor Ballylee
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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 be
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Inscription on tower composed by W. B. Yeats
Coole Park
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Coole Park is a nature reserve of approximately 1,000 acres located a few miles west of Gort, County Galway, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service, part of the Departme
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…Gregory. At the time, the property was valued at £5. In the early 1900s, the castle/tower was still owned by the Gregory family and became part of nearby Coole Estate, home of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats's lifelong friend. On the estate, Coole House, where Lady Gregory lived, was the centre for meetings for the Irish…
Autograph Tree in the Walled Garden
Woodland path at Coole Park