An Chraobh Airgid
Still late-winter light on Lough Derravaragh: the bare oak woods of Knockeyon mirrored in the glassy lake, four white swans in a line, pale reeds in front.

Mide · Meath

Loch Dairbhreach

Lough Derravaragh · Co. Westmeath

Where four children became swans.

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.

Here Aoife struck Lir’s children with her wand, and for three hundred years the Tuatha Dé and the sons of Míl camped on its shores to hear them sing. P. W. Joyce read the name as “lake of the oaks”.

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

  • Aoife Lir’s second wife, who turned his children into swans.

Sources

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