IRISH FAERIE QUEEN AIBELL

Her name means "most beautiful" She was an Irish faerie queen who played a magical harp. Humans could not hear this harp or they would die.

Aibell presided over North Munster, and was the guardian spirit of the Dalcassians or O'Briens. She had her palace two miles north of Killaloe, in a rock called Crageevil, but better known by the name of Craglea, 'grey rock.' The rock is situated in a silent glen, under the face of a mountain: and the people affirm that she forsook her retreat when the woods which once covered the place were cut down.