Thoor Ballylee, Gort

Described by Seamus Heaney as the most important building in Ireland, this Hiberno-Norman tower, nestled on a river bank in Ballylee, near Gort in County Galway, is a place of history, poetry, and idyllic beauty.

Surrounded by lush landscape, the poet W. B. Yeats spent summers with his family here and was inspired to write some of his most beloved work making the tower his permanent symbol.