School: Cratloe (C.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shitric
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 168
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Long ago there lived a chief named Lir. He had four children and their mother was dead. He married another wife but she did not like the children. She made up her mind to kill them.
One day she took them to King Bove the Red. They came to a lake and she changed the children into four swans. She told them to stay there three hundred years, three hundred years on Westmeath, and three hundred years on the Sea of Moyle. The children's speech was never changed. When King Bove heard what Eva had done he drove her up in the air and she was never seen again. When the nine hundred years were ended, St Kemoc had built a church. The swans heard the bell ringing and they went to him. He baptised them and they died.
