Western Ireland Tour, Day 5:  Thoor Ballylee

Yeats purchased the Tower at Ballylee in 1917, and set about converting it into his image of the ancestral home and locus of poetic power.  

An ancient bridge, and a more ancient tower . . .

A winding stair, a chamber arched with stone . . .

living room interior

the winding staircase at the heart of the Tower

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