Drumcliffe Church and Yeats’ Grave

SIGHTSEEING, SLIGO Created : Oct 6, 2015, 10.39 AM IST

Anita Rao Kashi

Anita Rao Kashi is a freelance travel and food writer based in Bangalore. After nearly 12 years with The Times of India in Bangalore,she went freelance in Jan 2006 to write about travel and food. Her stories have appeared in such publications as Lonely Planet Magazine India, National Geographic Magazine India, Economic Times, Jetwings, Femina, Tiger Tales, Silkwinds, Bangalore Mirror, The Star of Malaysia etc. Apart from writing for various national and international magazines, newspapers and websites, as well blogging on travel and food, she has worked on travel and food guides.

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Standing against the backdrop of the lovely Ben Bulben, Drumcliffe Church is a stone edifice with its tower rising into the sky and adorned with Celtic crosses, dominating the surrounding countryside. It is striking at any time of the day, but is hauntingly beautiful in the gentle evening light, with Ben Bulben silhouetted against a bluish-grey sky. It is usually serene and the silence is full of poetry. Yeats’ is supposed to have visited the place but more importantly, it is here that he was buried. Poetically and aptly enough, the last lines of his last poem Under Ben Bulben “Cast a cold eye/on life, on death/Horseman, pass by!” are inscribed on the tombstone.
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