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Mon 12 Dec 2002Yeats scholars object to house planA group of international W.B. Yeats scholars has objected to plans to build a dwelling house on land next to Thoor Ballylee in south Galway.Galway County Council granted permission on October 25th for construction of a single-storey dwelling house on private land adjoining the 16th century tower where the poet once lived and worked.