Ireland · Restored
Thoor Ballylee
Thoor Ballylee is a 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house on the Streamstown River near Gort, County Galway, Ireland. The four-storey rectangular stone tower, popularly known as Yeats's Tower, was restored and occupied by W. B. Yeats in the 1920s. It has been repaired and reopened in recent years and functions as a heritage site linked to Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival.
Its prime
1924
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1924
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact, rectangular four-storey tower house of roughly dressed grey limestone rising directly beside the Streamstown River, capped by a crenellated parapet. The façade shows a vertical sequence of narrow medieval upper windows and larger lower-floor openings (installed during Yeats's restoration), with very thick walls and small slit lights; a small thatch cottage is attached at the base and a four-arched stone bridge crosses the river nearby. The tower appears solid and complete, set in a low rural riverside landscape.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1924.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Thoor Ballylee — including 4 interiors: ground-floor chamber (yeats's 'pleasantest room'), mural (spiral) stone stair, view from an upper-floor window and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Thoor Ballylee with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1924 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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