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Extract from the Drumcliff Travel Guides:
If you stick to the main N15 road out of Sligo you'll bypass the small Rosses Point peninsula, only reaching the sea five miles north of Sligo at
DRUMCLIFF
(bus #480 from Sligo), an early monastic site best-known as the last resting place of
W.B. Yeats
. His grave is in the grounds of an austere nineteenth-century Protestant church, within sight of the nearby Benbulben Mountain, as the poet wished. The grave of W.B. and his wife, George, has a simple headstone bearing the epitaph from Yeats's last poem:
Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pa...
read the whole Drumcliff Travel Guides...
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