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Oidheadh Chlainne Lir
Lir's four children are turned into swans by their jealous stepmother Aoife and endure nine hundred years of exile across Ireland's waters until a Christian bell on Inishglora, off the Mayo coast, heralds the end of the spell.
The Children of Lir is an Irish Mythological Cycle tale, one of the Three Sorrows of Storytelling, in which Lir's four children are turned into swans by their stepmother Aoife and endure nine hundred years of exile on Lough Derravaragh, the Sea of Moyle, and the Erris coast of Mayo, until a Christian bell on Inishglora heralds the enchantment's end.