Myth and Legend: The Best Supernatural Landmarks of Ireland
| July 17, 2017
Thoor Ballylee – County Galway
This 14th century fortified tower house has passed through a series of illustrious and noble hands over the course of its existence. No owner has been more famous than poet W. B Yeats, who used this tower as his summer house for years. Yeats himself believed that the tower was haunted, claiming to have seen the ghost of a young soldier.
After Yeats died, the tower passed into the hands of the Irish heritage service, and was turned into a museum. In 1989, a visitor to the tower took a photo of Yeats’ sitting room, only to develop it and find a blurry figure completely visible, standing in the middle of the photograph.
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