Drumcliff

Drumcliff (also Drumcliffe; Irish: Droim Chliabh; German "crest of baskets " ), is a village in County Sligo in Ireland. It is located eight kilometers north of Sligo town, on the National Road N15 between the mountain Ben bulbs and a bay.

Known the small town because of a high cross, a round tower, the remains of a monastery of the 6th century and built on the site of an older church because of the grave of the 1948 umgebetteten by this poet William Butler Yeats in the cemetery of St. Columba 's Church, is been. The village may be listed on the Ireland map of Claudius Ptolemy as " Nagnata ", thus becoming the 2nd century an important settlement. The large wedge tomb of Coolbeg is located northwest of Drumcliff.

St. Colmcille (also St. Columba - The Dove of the Church ) founded a monastery here about 575 on lands that allegedly presented the king Aedh son of Ainmire available. The same, however, is said to have taken hostage St. Aedan of Ferns. In the near Culdreimne, was the Holy in the year 561, before he went to Iona, involved in a fight in which it came to the title to a book. The monastery in Drumcliff seems from the 9th to the 16th century to have been widely known. It was plundered in 1187 by the king of Breifne O'Rourke Maelseachlain first time, and again in 1267 and 1315. The last known abbot died in 1503.

Beside the road the stump is a round tower, has taken in the in 1396 a flash. Tradition says that he will collapse in the moment when the smartest man walks past him.

Right of access road to the cemetery is about the 1000 built only slightly damaged high cross with depictions of Adam and Eve, Cain kills Abel, Daniel in the lions' den and a crucifixion. There are some imaginary representations of animals and wattle on the lateral surfaces of the cross shaft.

Drumcliff is also called a monastery ruins in County Clare.