Castillo
Thoor Ballylee
🇮🇪 Irlanda · siglo XV
Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats's Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats.
It has been described as "the most important public building in Ireland" by late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.
Texto adaptado de «Thoor Ballylee» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thoor Ballylee ranks #2510 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #52 of the 107 mapped in Irlanda. Fundado en ca. 1450, más antiguo que el 53% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 243 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XV. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.
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