Western Ireland Tour, Day 5:  Thoor Ballylee

For Yeats, the Tower was both home and poetic symbol.  It came to stand for him as the emblem of masterful creativity, meaningful history, and great character:

I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare

This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair . . .

The tower, viewed from the rear

view of the Kiltartan countryside from atop the Tower

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