| Bodh Dearg was elected King of the Tuatha De | | | | Inis Gluaire by a monk named MacCaomhog. The |
| Dannan much to the chagrin of Lir, his main rival. | | | | children were tied together with silver chains to |
| To appease him, Bodh Dearg sent him one of his | | | | ensure that they would always stay together. |
| daughters, Aoibh, to take as his wife. She bore | | | | However, Deoch the wife of the King of Leinster |
| him four children, a girl named Fionnula and three | | | | Lairgean demanded that she wanted the swans. |
| sons Aodh, Fiachra and Conn. Aiobh died, so Bodh | | | | Lairgean attacked the monastery on Inis Gluaire, |
| Dearg sent another of his daughters, Aoife to | | | | however during the raid, the chains were broken |
| marry Lir. Aoife soon became jealous of the love | | | | and the swans transformed into old, withered |
| that Lir had for his four children so she decided to | | | | people, before they died they each were baptised. |
| banish them. She turned them into swans, when | | | | According to some accounts the site of Lir's |
| Bodh heard of this he transformed Aoife into an | | | | castle is currently occupied by Tullynally Castle, |
| air demon for eternity. The children, as swans | | | | Co. Westmeath, home of the Earl of Longford, |
| were forced to spend three hundred years on | | | | Tullynally is the anglicised form of Tullach na n-eala |
| Lough Derravaragh, Co. Westmeath; three | | | | or 'hill of the swan'. |
| hundred years on the Sea of Moyle, lying | | | | |
| between Co. Antrim and the Mull of Kintyre in | | | | Russell Shortt is a travel consultant with Exploring |
| Scotland and three hundred years on Inis Gluaire, | | | | Ireland, the leading specialists in customised, |
| off the coast of Co. Mayo. After nine hundred | | | | private escorted tours, escorted coach tours and |
| years they eventually were granted sanctuary on | | | | independent self drive tours of Ireland. |