The Lower Floors of Yeats Thoor Ballylee
The Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society, a local non-profit group, has taken over the former home of Poet and Nobel Laureate W. B. Yeats near Gort in County Galway and is raising funds to restore...
Irish Castles
Into the ‘Stranger’s Room’ at Yeats Thoor Ballylee
The uppermost floor at Thoor Ballylee, the 15th Century Norman castle once home to Poet William Butler Yeats near Gort in County Galway, remains essentially unchanged from its 600-year-old decor save the remnants and...
View from Thoor Ballylee Rooftop Battlements
High above the County Galway countryside, these sculpted limestone battlements, bleached by nature over more than 600 years, granted the Norman builders of Thoor Ballylee (Yeats Tower) a crisp view of the surrounding terrain...
Dangan Castle in Ballynacally, County Clare
This was the December image from my 2020 Magical Irish Countryside Collectors Calendar. One of the amazing things about the Irish countryside is seeing Medieval castle ruins coexisting with modern homes, though separated by...
Tromra Castle along County Clare’s Atlantic Coast
Tromra Castle, built in the 1400s, stands watch over Ireland’s County Clare coast near Quilty and Seafield, where many Spanish sailors lost their lives in 1588 when stormy weather drove their ships on the...
