trail in Galway, Ireland
Coole Park
Lady Gregory’s estate, where Yeats carved his initials into a tree
Worth the wander
Walk looped nature trails to the “Autograph Tree”, a copper beech carved with the initials of W.B. Yeats (1898), G.B. Shaw, J.M. Synge and other figures of the Irish Literary Revival who gathered here, the setting for Yeats’s “The Wild Swans at Coole”.
Quick answers
- Cost
- Free (paid visitor-centre exhibition)
- Time and distance
- 1-5.5 km of trails
- Parking
- Free car park at the visitor centre.
Find your way
Coole Park, off the N18, near Gort, Co. Galway