Fabled in song and in story - Drumcliffe Churchyard
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Where: Connaught, County Sligo, Ireland
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Try to find the date or year when this image was made.No doubt there's many a rustic man and woman in the Churchyard at Drumcliffe but most people will associate it with a Nobel Prize winning poet and his cryptic epitaph. That are in County Sligo is absolutely heavenly and anyone who has ever contemplated a final resting place would be tempted to join him there!
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_0937
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O Mac
Cast a cold eye on life, on death, Google Car, passed by. maps.app.goo.gl/BK9SVCL84eTMvkvo9
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/ Bualadh bos!
Niall McAuley
Previously, at Easons:
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I will arise and go now, and go to make coffee
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Drumcliffe CoI is from 1809, per the NIAH, no help with dates.
Niall McAuley
937 is a low IMP number, for what that is worth.
Niall McAuley
Under the trees. left of the cottage gable end, I note a round-topped gravestone which is near where Yeats' grave is now (not at this date). I don't know whose it is for dating purposes.
suckindeesel
A simple headstone maps.app.goo.gl/H7CPnYSaKRVJiUBC7?g_st=ic
Niall McAuley
Neighbouring IMPs in the catalogue are undateable Sligo scenery.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 In that google pic, you can see the round-topped marker behind Yeats' simple one.
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There is a later similar view with more advanced vegetation, particularly the hedge to the right of the cross; and a snoozing jarvey. See - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000337267
suckindeesel
“Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church stands near, By the road an ancient cross. No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”
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In 1911, the CoI clergyman was William Nunan.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 If I was Yeats's ghost, I would be so cross that they changed the final exclamation point in my poem to a mere full stop on the gravestone! (Although as myself rather than Yeats's's ghost, I prefer the full stop.)
Niall McAuley
Yeats was just born in the first possible date here, and was 49 and a famous poet by the last. He lived for 25 years after the latest possible date for this pic.
Architecture of Dublin
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43298/under-ben-bulben
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/ Good spot!.
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[Aside] 'The Drumcliffe Tea House & Craft Shop', now in that long building on the right, has virtual sticky buns ... goo.gl/maps/USzw1Vub3Du7AW4r7
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Very funny!!