Drumcliff
Drumcliff (also Drumcliffe; Irish : Droim Chliabh; dt. "Comb of the baskets") is a village in County Sligo in Ireland . It is eight kilometers north of the city of Sligo , on the N15 national road between Mount Ben Bulben and a sea bay.
The small place is known for a high cross and a round tower , which is one of the remains of a monastery from the 6th century. The village is possibly listed on Claudius Ptolemy's map of Ireland as "Nagnata", so it was an important settlement in the 2nd century. The Big Wedge Tomb of Coolbeg located northwest of Drumcliff.
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St. Colmcille ( Columban of Iona ) founded a monastery here around 575 AD on land allegedly made available by King Aedh, son of Ainmire. The same is said to have taken Aidán von Ferns hostage. In nearby Culdreimne the saint was involved in the battle of Cúl Dreimhne in 561, before he went to Iona , in which the title of a book was concerned. The monastery at Drumcliff appears to have been well known from the 9th to the 16th centuries. It was sacked in 1187 by Maelseachlain O'Rourke, King of Breifne , and again in 1267 and 1315. The last known abbot died in 1503.
Next to the road is the stump of a round tower that was struck by lightning in 1396. Tradition says that the moment the smartest man passes him, he will collapse.
To the right of the approach to the cemetery is the slightly damaged high cross, erected around 1000, with depictions of Adam and Eve, Cain kills Abel, Daniel in the lions' den and the crucifixion, as well as depictions of mythical animals and wickerwork on the side of the cross shaft.
Grave of William Butler Yeats
The grave of the poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is located in the cemetery of St. Columba's Church, which was built from 1805 to 1809. Yeats died on January 28, 1939 in Menton on the French Riviera and was originally buried in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin . His reburial after Drumcliff in 1948 and the grave inscription corresponded to arrangements in the last stanza of his last poem Under Ben Bulben .
Drumcliff is also the name of a ruined monastery in County Clare .
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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!
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ N , 8 ° 30 ′ W