Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish: Túr Bhaile Uí Laí) is a fortified, 15th or 16th century Hiberno-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as Yeats' Tower because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats.

 

Whilst he lived there, Yeats was confident that the tower was haunted by the ghost of an Anglo-Norman soldier.

 

1n 1989, a visitor took a series of photographs inside the tower, and on one appeared an anomaly that has been claimed to be the figure of a young boy. Although Jones mentions it in his book, a copy of the picture is not reproduced to examine.

 

Pictured left is another view of Thoor Ballylee courtesy of Tiger.