St. Columba's Church Site Has Been A Place of Pilgrimage For Over 1,500 Years: "Under Bare Benbulben’s Head In Drumcliffe Churchyard Yeats Is Laid...." and although Drumcliffe is best known around the world as the final resting place of William B. Yeats, the site on which St. Columba's Church stands has been a place of Christian worship for over 1500 years. St. Columcille founded a monastry in Drumcliffe in 574 and at that time, it was one of his principal religious houses, together … [Read more...]
Drumcliffe – Final Resting Place of William B. Yeats
November 24, 2010 by
Under Bare Benbulben's Head In Drumcliffe Churchyard Yeats Is Laid: Driving south from Donegal to Sligo, we make a stop at Drumcliffe, a town best known as the final the resting place of William B. Yeats. Yeats' grave is in the churchyard of St. Columba's Church where his great grandfather, John Yeats, was Rector in the early nineteenth century. Although Yeats was born and educated in Dublin he always considered Sligo to be his home. It was Yeats wish that he be buried under Ben … [Read more...]
