Recipe for Thoor Ballylee Oysters

Oysters with cognac dressing - from Irish Oyster Cuisine.

Among those who often visited the Gregory home was WB Yeats. While Yeats is associated very much with Sligo where he is buried, he bought a derelict tower house near Coole at Ballylee. This he restored 'with old mill boards and sea-green slates, and smith work from the Gort forge', then renamed it Thoor Ballylee - 'thoor' being the Irish word for tower.

When you have finished studying the Yeats memorabilia you can have an expansive view of the south Galway countryside from the tower rooftop.