Photos: St. Columba Church Of Ireland May 2004

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File contributed by: Kathleen Mammoser kayb48@yahoo.com 
October 7, 2009, 7:01 pm

ST. COLUMBA CHURCH OF IRELAND MAY 2004

Source: Drumcliffe, Co Sligo

The Church was built in 1809 using stones from old monastry! 
Parts of a High Cross have been found in the walls.

The church is world famous because the poet W.B.Yeats was 
buried here in 1948, having died in France in 1939.

Yeat's great grandfather, John Yeats, was rector in the 
early 19th century. The Yeats children had many happy 
childhood memories of holidays in Sligo.