Cool park
The Coole Park ( Irish Páirc na Cúile ) is a 405 hectare park near the Irish city of Gort in County Galway . Originally the property and manor house belonged to the Gregory family. When Isabella Augusta Gregory died in 1932, the house began to deteriorate before the ruins were demolished in the early 1940s. Lady Gregory had already sold it to the Irish Free State in 1927 . Only the works of art, photos and texts by the Gregorys have been preserved.
The park is now owned by the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service and consists of forests, a series of turloughs , a 6 km forest path and walled gardens. The Coole Park has been part of a nature reserve since 1979 by an EU resolution due to the birds that live there and is considered the Coole-Garryland Complex Special Area of Conservation . The park is open all year round; the visitor center only from April to September.
The Autograph Tree
Inside the enclosed garden is the so-called Autograph Tree ( signature tree ), a copper beech , in whose bark many Irish writers and friends of Lady Gregory immortalized themselves since the summer of 1898 - including WB Yeats and his brother Jack , George Bernard Shaw , John Millington Synge , Seán O'Casey , John Masefield , GW Russell , George Moore , Augustus John and the later first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde .
The poem The Wild Swans at Coole ( The Wild Swans at Coole ), which was written by WB Yeats, describes the beauty of the park and the wild swans on the local Turloughs. Yeats wrote a total of five poems about the house or property: In addition to The Wild Swans at Coole , these were I walked among the seven woods of Coole , In the Seven Woods , Coole Park, 1929 and Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '47.9 " N , 8 ° 50' 6.2" W.