An Chraobh Airgid

Place

Carraig na Rón

Carraig na Rón

The Rock of the Seals, in the Sea of Moyle.

Open it on the full site There every name opens, and a web shows who is kin to whom.

Where Fionnuala told her brothers to meet if the storm ever scattered them. Joyce’s index glosses it “the rock of the seals”. No one can now point to which rock it was.

In the tales

  • The Children of Lir A jealous stepmother, a druid’s wand, and four children who must live nine hundred years as swans.

See also

  • Fionnuala The eldest of the Children of Lir. Her name means “fair shoulder”.
  • Sruth na Maoile The Sea of Moyle. The cold narrow sea between Antrim and Kintyre.

Sources

Medieval manuscript. Written down by Irish scholars between the eighth and seventeenth centuries.

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