The Children of LIR

1. The Children of LIR Bodb Derg was king of Tuath De Danann. He had four beautiful children. Fionnuala, Fiachra, Conn and Aodh was the name of the children.

2. The Children lived with their father the King. They lived in a beautiful castle. When their Mother Aoibh died Bodb was very sad. Bodb remarried the beautiful Aoife.

3. At first Aoife loved the children but then she realised that Bodb loved them more than her. • Then one day she took the children out to the lake. • As she watching the children she waved her magic wand over them and turned them in to swans .she left them with their voices and the gift of song.

4. Aoife cast a spell. That the children would be swans now for 900 years. The children would spend 300 years on Lough Derravaragh.300 years on Inishglora and 300 years in the sea of Moyel. When Aoife went back to the castle she said that the children had been killed by wild boars. When Bodb went out to the lake Fionnuala told her father that Aoife had cast a spell on them. Their father was furious when he told aoifes father lir what she had done lir had he turned into an ugly moth.

5. Their dad visited his children every day on Lough Derravaragh until he died. When his children found out they were very sad.

6. Then the children 300 years were over in Lough Derravaragh . Then they went to the of Moyel for another 300 years. They flew back to were their father had lived. They saw that it was ruined.

7. When their final 300 years was up in the Sea of Moyel. They left for Inishglora Island. They met a man that was a monk . He was the man they needed to change back to people.