Qualla: Drumcliff Monastery https://qualla.com/drumcliff-monastery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/drumcliff-monastery-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Drumcliff Monastery https://qualla.com/drumcliff-monastery Drumcliff Monastery: Introduction https://qualla.com/drumcliff-monastery/ Photo credit Geofreund1, CC BY-SA 4.0. Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by. The words are carved on a slab of limestone in a small churchyard at the base of Benbulben, five miles north of Sligo town. William Butler Yeats wrote them as his own epitaph, and they mark a grave he asked for here, in the shadow of a mountain he loved, beside the ruins of a monastery founded in 574 AD by Saint Colmcille. The Drumcliff site has been holy ground for fifteen hundred years. Yeats simply added another layer.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/drumcliff-monastery-wp/gc9v-drumcliff-monastery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Drumcliff Monastery: Colmcille's Westernmost Heart https://qualla.com/drumcliff-monastery/ Photo credit National Party from Dublin, Ireland, CC BY 2.0. 'Beloved to my heart also in the West,' the saint is said to have declared in a later fragment, 'Drumcliffe at Culcinne's strand.' Colmcille founded the monastery in the territory of Cairbre Drom Cliabh, ruled by the descendants of Cairbre Mac Neill, son of Niall of the Nine Host...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/drumcliff-monastery-wp/gc9v-drumcliff-monastery-the-high-cross.mp3 0:06 3 full Drumcliff Monastery: Burned in His Own House https://qualla.com/drumcliff-monastery/ Photo credit The Banner, CC BY-SA 3.0. The monastery's annals read like a chronicle of survival. In 871, Dunadhach son of Raghallach, Lord of Cinel Cairbre-Mor, 'Protector of the roaring shore, pious warrior of the sons of Conn,' was interred under hazel crosses at Drumcliff. In 1029, the erenagh Angus O Hennesy was b...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/9/v/drumcliff-monastery-wp/gc9v-drumcliff-monastery-round-tower-round-mountain.mp3 0:06 5 full Drumcliff Monastery: Yeats Came Home https://qualla.com/drumcliff-monastery/ Photo credit en:The.Q, CC BY-SA 2.5. Yeats died in 1939 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, and the war delayed his return. In 1948 his remains were brought back to Drumcliff and buried in the Church of Ireland graveyard beside the monastery he had grown up beneath. His great-grandfather had been rector ...

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