Lake Gille and Innisfree

A winding road from Sligo, interspersed with pretty houses and cottages bounded by white picket fences, which in itself is quite poetic, leads out towards Yeats’ country. The road steadily ascends to a summit from where a panoramic view of Lough (lake) Gille is visible, whose banks are home to Innisfree. Strong gusts of wind sweep in from the lake but the haunting beauty of the scene is spellbinding. This is the scenery that inspired many of Yeat’s poems, but none more evocative as the The Lake Isle of Innisfree.