Thoor Ballylee
Towe house with Yeats links in County Galway, Ireland / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Thoor Ballylee | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Anglo-Norman tower house |
Location | County Galway, Ireland |
Coordinates | 53.103°N 8.775°W / 53.103; -8.775 |
Construction started | 13th century |
Completed | 13th century |
Owner | Earls of Clanrickarde, The Septs de Burgo, William Butler Yeats |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | The Septs de Burgo |
Other designers | William Butler Yeats, William A. Scott |
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Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) 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' 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.[1]