The tower was made famous by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The tower had to be restored before Yeats could live in it. By the summer of 1919 Yeats and his wife and daughter had moved in.
The tower or castle that Yeats bought was a sixteeneth century norman castle built by the family de Burgo, or Burke. It consisted of four floors with one room on each, connected by a spiral stone stairway built into the seven-foot thickness of the massive outer wall. Each floor had a window overlooking the river which flowed alongside. At the top here was a flat roof reached by a final steep flight of steps from the floor below. The picture is of my husband, my mom and me on that flat roof. The stair case is VERY narrow getting up to the top, but boy is it worth climbing all those stairs!
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