Culture & Heritage
There is a vast amount of culture and heritage relating to the North West Trail. Travelling throught the Yeats Country in County Sligo the trail passes near to Glencar Waterfall, the Lake Isle of Innisfree.
The North West Trail links to Drumcliffe (Irish Droim Chliabh), the final resting place of W.B. Yeats. St. Colmcille founded a monastery in Drumcliffe in about 575 and the village is also famous for its Irish High Cross dating to the 11th century, which stands in the grounds of the former abbey. Just across the road is the stump of a Round Tower.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865, the son of a well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo, where his parents were raised, and in London. He returned to Dublin at the age of fifteen to continue his education and study painting, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry.
Literary connections continue in Strabane, where where Flann O'Brien was born. Flann O'Brien is famous for his cycling themed murder mystery The Third Policeman.
Old Castles abound on the route as do old country houses and gardens. For more information on attractions on the route see the attractions section.
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
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