Gravestone marking the final resting place of the poet William Butler Yeats. According to his wife, Yeats' wish was to be buried quickly in France with a minimum of fuss, "His actual words were 'If I die bury me up there [at Roquebrune] and then in a year's time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo". He was buried quickly after his death in France, and then in September 1948, his remains were placed on an Irish Naval Service ship and interred in Drumcliffe churchyard, County Sligo, under the shadow of Ben Bulben.

His epitaph is taken from the last lines of "Under Ben Bulben", one of his final poems:

Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by.