St Columba Church

Ireland / Sligo /
A wonderful church with a rich history. Orignally a monastic site, the church graveyard is now the final resting place of poet William Butler Yeats. It was Yeats' final wishes to be burried in this church yard according to instructions in one of his later poems, Under Bare BenBulBen's Head:

"Under bare Ben Bulben's head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
An ancestor was rector there
Long years ago, a church stands near,
By the road an ancient cross.
No marble, no conventional phrase;
On limestone quarried near the spot
By his command these words are cut:


Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!

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Coordinates:   54°19'34"N   8°29'36"W
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