Yeats, where is Innisfree?

Yeats' tower was a marvelous sight to behold. After learning so much about Yeats and his poetry it was hard not to gawk at the simplicity of the tower knowing he once wrote such beautiful poems there. I was even lucky enough to hear a reading by the one and only Dr. Reed himself. He read "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and although that poem was written elsewhere, in a city, it longs for nature. 

As the poem was read, I couldn't help but make connections to how I was feeling in that moment. Yeats speaks of his island in the first stanza of his poem; he mentions a small cabin, rows of beans, a honey hive and a life alone in a "bee loud glade". This stanza screamed seclusion and contentment alone, which Yeats was in his tower in the middle of nowhere. The second stanza begins:  

                            And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

                            Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

These two lines completely summed how I felt at Yeats' tower. I could hear the river running and the wind blowing, it was calm, and it was peaceful. I could imagine walking the ground in the morning and hearing the bird's chirp and the leaves rustle. I do think that my appreciation for this location came from Yeats' poetry and history. This location felt like the poem; it was simple but dreamlike and I'm very grateful to have seen it.