7. ST - Pollexfen's turret
May 13, 2021, 04:27 PM
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Make your way down the narrow alleyway pictured on your device to get to Wine Street car park, the best location from which to see Pollexfen's turret as well as Queen Maeve's cairn in the distance on Knocknarea. By the tourist signage, you should be able to see the turret to the right and the cairn to its left in the distance.
Since 2015, on Wine Street opposite the building that houses this famous turret is a bust of a good friend of Yeats. In fact the poet championed him for many years culminating in a Nobel prize for literature in 1913. That fellow poet was India's Rabindranath Tagore. Both poets greatly admired each other's work which both featured landscape, musicality and spirituality. Yeats even had Tagore's play 'The Post Office' performed at The Abbey Theatre.
In our Spotify playlist we include some of the Bengal poet's quotes after this audio clip. The easiest way to see the statue is to carry on to Wine Street where you'll be heading for the next point of interest being Wesley Chapel. The bust will be further down Wine Street on the other side of the road.
'The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to the unborn song'.
Since 2015, on Wine Street opposite the building that houses this famous turret is a bust of a good friend of Yeats. In fact the poet championed him for many years culminating in a Nobel prize for literature in 1913. That fellow poet was India's Rabindranath Tagore. Both poets greatly admired each other's work which both featured landscape, musicality and spirituality. Yeats even had Tagore's play 'The Post Office' performed at The Abbey Theatre.
In our Spotify playlist we include some of the Bengal poet's quotes after this audio clip. The easiest way to see the statue is to carry on to Wine Street where you'll be heading for the next point of interest being Wesley Chapel. The bust will be further down Wine Street on the other side of the road.
'The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to the unborn song'.