An Chraobh Airgid
On a bright, bitter winter day after snow, swans huddle on a black rock in the breaking waves between the dark cliffs of Fair Head and the snowy Mull of Kintyre.

The sea

Sruth na Maoile

The Sea of Moyle · The North Channel

The cold narrow sea between Antrim and Kintyre.

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 name means “the current of the Moyle”: the Mull of Kintyre across the water. The Children of Lir spent their second three hundred years here, and met at Carraig na Rón whenever the storms scattered them.

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

Sources

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