An Chraobh Airgid
On a grey autumn afternoon a grassy síd above Lough Derg opens its tall doorway, golden light pouring down the hill towards the pewter lake and its wooded islands.

Mumu · Munster

Loch Deirgdheirc

Lough Derg, on the Shannon · Co. Clare, Co. Galway and Co. Tipperary

Bodb Dearg’s síd, in the Lir tale.

Open it on the full site There it is marked on the map of the five fifths, where the road of a tale can be traced.

The tale sets Bodb Dearg’s hall above this lake, and it was on the road here that Aoife stopped at Loch Dairbhreach. This is not the Lough Derg of St Patrick’s Purgatory, which is in Donegal.

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

  • Bodb Dearg Son of the Dagda, chosen king of the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Sources

Each tale above lists the sources it is retold from. Every source the site draws on is listed on the full site.