Early morning winter sun casting an orange glow on the church. Drumcliff is the final resting place of the famous poet W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), who is buried in the graveyard of St. Columba's Church of Ireland church. Although Yeats died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France in January 1939, his remains were brought home to Ireland and re-interred at Drumcliff in 1948. His famous epitaph reads
"Cast a cold Eye
On Life, on Death.
Horseman, pass by."
Yeats paternal grandfather was rector in the church.