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Thoor Ballylee

location_on Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland
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About Thoor Ballylee

Thoor Ballylee Castle is a fortified, 15th century Hiberno Norman tower residence built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the metropolis of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats' Tower because it was as soon as owned and inhabited by way of the poet William Butler Yeats. The citadel became constructed within the 15th century and originally formed a part of the huge estates of the Earls of Clanricarde, from the de Burgo or Burke own family.

The nearby four arched bridge dates to around 1825. In 1837, the Carrig own family becomes recorded as residing in the fort. At the time of Griffith's Valuation, Patrick Carrick changed into leasing a herd's house, citadel and land at Ballylee, barony of Kiltartan, from William Henry Gregory. At the time, the assets turned into valued at £5. In the early 1900s, the citadel tower become still owned by the Gregory own family and became part of close by Coole Estate, home of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats’ lifelong pal.

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