Tír na nÓg
Pronunciation cheer na NOHG
Means “Land of the Young.” The Otherworld of Irish mythology. The warrior Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhaill, fell in love with Niamh of the Golden Hair and rode west across the sea with her on a white horse called Embarr.
They lived there for what felt to him like three years. When he asked to visit Ireland she warned him not to dismount. Three hundred years had passed at home and the Fianna were long dead.
Riding through a changed country, he stopped to help some men shift a stone. He leaned down from the saddle, fell off, and aged three hundred years in the moment his feet touched the ground. He survived just long enough to tell the story to a passing monk.
Mícheál Coimín, c. 1750 verse Laoi Oisín ar Thír na nÓg; Bard Mythologies