Page 19 - HP2A 003 The Children of Lir

and those who were in grief or to the stormy sea of moyle and

illness or pain forgot their sorrows from that time it was made a law

and were lulled into a peaceful that no one should kill a swan in

calmness. There was peace in all Ireland.

that region, while war and chaos Beside the sea of Moyle, the found

filled other lands. no longer the peaceful and wooded

Huge changes took place in three shored they had known, but only

centuries. Towers and castles steep and rocky coasts and a wild

rose and fell, villages were built sea. There came a great storm one

and destroyed, generations were night and the swans knew that

born and died and still, the swan they could not keep together, so

children lived and sand, until at the they resolved that they would meet

end of 300 years. They flew away at a rock called carricknarone.