We are delighted to confirm the poet WB Yeats’s Norman tower Thoor Ballylee is open all summer long for visits, tours, and events.

Come and see what 2018 has to offer! Check out our blog and associated pages for more details of special events. Opening hours for this season below.

THOOR BALLYLEE, Co. Galway

Opening Hours

Summer

(June – August)

10am – 6pm daily

&

Spring/Autumn

(May & September)

10am – 5pm Mon-Fri

11am – 5m Sat-Sun

Admission €7 (with concessions available). Groups €5 per person (minimum 10 people).

Cups of tea, tour, and hearty welcome all included.

Upcoming events include a first-ever Thoor Ballylee staging of Yeats’s dance play The Only Jealousy of Emer for two nights only, Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th May, in a site-specific production by DancePlayers hotfoot from the Galway Theatre Festival, a celebration of Yeats’s birthday (and Joyce’s Bloomsday) around Saturday 16th June, and many other cultural events throughout the season.  Check out our blog for further details as they arrive.

Last year the jackdaws made a nest in one of the tower alcoves – an extraordinary construction several feet high of reeds and twigs brought through the tower’s arrow-slit windows in an extraordinary labour of production. This year they have returned, and successfully it seems – here are five new eggs from a recent photograph by our resident snapper Deirdre Holmes. This alcove is off limits, naturally, but all else very much open.