What is recorded here

Thoor Ballylee is a 15th-century tower house in County Galway that became the summer home of William Butler Yeats from 1921 to 1929. He bought it for thirty-five pounds, renamed it with the Irish word for tower, and wrote poems there because the countryside felt like beauty itself. The abandoned stones later reappeared in a John Ford film and were restored through the work of Mary Hanley and the Kiltartan Society.

Thoor Ballylee is recorded as a castle in County Galway. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Thoor Ballylee Castle was built in the early 13th century by the de Burgo family, Norman lords of Connacht, and later held by the O'Flaherty clan. It is remembered as the childhood home of the poet W.B. Yeats and as a site of cultural and historical significance in Irish literary heritage.