The Straits of Moyle is the name given to the area of sea between northeastern Ireland and southwestern Scotland. The distance is short, and from certain areas it is possible to sight land on the other side of the straits in clear weather conditions.
Moyle District, with its administrative headquarters in the seaside town of Ballycastle, lies in the North-East corner of Northern Ireland.
It includes 42 miles of the breathtakingly beautiful North Antrim coastline, including the Giant’s Causeway, and derives its name from “The Straits of Moyle”, a local name for the North Channel, the narrow stretch of sea between the Antrim coast and Scotland.
Whilst the Moyle district is largely rural in character (covering 190 square miles and with a resident population of 15,933), it is within a 25-mile radius of some of Northern Ireland’s principal towns - Ballymena, Coleraine and Larne.
Aoife scowled at them again and told them that they were to spend nine hundred years as swans, three hundred on Lough Derravaragh, three hundred on the Straits of Moyle and three hundred on the Isle of Inish Glora.
The swans left for the Straits of Moyle, never to see their father again.
Their time on the Northern Straits of Moyle were not so joyous, with frequent storms separating them, only for they to join up again.
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