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Tir-nan-Og
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A land of perpetual youth, the Irish equivalent of Elysium; the name means literally in Irish, ‘land of the young’.
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
...-nan-Og a land of perpetual youth, the Irish equivalent of Elysium; the name means literally in Irish, ‘land of the...
Tir-nan-Og
A land of perpetual youth, the Irish equivalent of Elysium; the name means literally in Irish, ‘land of the young’.
Tír na mBeo
[OIr. béo, living, quick].The Land of the Living, a place of everlasting life, one of several distant lands settled by the semi-divine Tuatha Dé Danann after their defeat by the mortal Milesians; in ...
Roca Barraidh
[cf. ScG roc, anything that tangles a fishing-hook; tops of seaweed that appear above the water].Name current on the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides for an enchanted island on the dim western ...
Eilean na hÒige
Scottish Gaelic name for Tír na nÓg. In modern usage it may also refer to the island of Eriskay.
divine land
Phrase used in English translations of Irish and Welsh stories whose reference cannot be made specific without knowing the preceding Celtic text. By implication the ‘divine land’ is a pleasant, even ...
Ynys Afallon
[cf. W afall, apple].Happy island in the western ocean, a land of perpetual youth, fertility, feasting, and abundant sensual pleasure, where magical birds sing enchanted songs. Comparable to the ...
Glenasmole
[Ir. gleann na smól, valley of the thrushes].Valley at the headwaters of the River Dodder in south Co. Dublin extending into Co. Wicklow, especially rich in Fenian associations. Oisín first fell to ...
Eriskay
Small island, 3 1.5 miles, in the Outer Hebrides, between South Uist and Barra, known for the ‘Eriskay Love Lilt’, one of the most admired of all Scottish Gaelic songs. Marjorie Kennedy-Fraser ...
Mag Mell
[Ir. mell, pleasant, delightful, e.g. pleasant plain].Often-cited Irish otherworldly realm frequently visited by mortal heroes. Bran in the 8th-century Imram Brain [The Voyage of Bran] passes through ...
Lough Gur
Small lake 2.5 miles NNE of Bruff, Co. Limerick, widely known in Irish tradition for the wealth of neolithic remains to be found near its shores and under its waters. The light limestone soil of the ...
Connla's Well
A source of inspiration and knowledge in early Irish mythology, some what comparable to the well of Mimir in Norse tradition. The location of the well changes from text to text, and the identity of ...
King Herla
Traditional early British king whose story is told in the Latin text De Nugis Curialum by Walter Map (c.1140–c.1209). One day, while rising, King Herla meets a dwarfish king with goat's hooves who ...
Niam
1 Sometime wife of Conall Cernach, his other consort being Lendabair. She is better remembered, however, for nursing Cúchulainn, during which time she becomes his mistress. She tries to stop ...
Echtrae Conli
Irish title of one of the most ancient (8th cent.?) of all Irish narratives, known in English as The Adventures of Connla, which survives in the Book of the Dun Cow [Lebor na hUidre] and the Yellow ...
