Tír na nÓg is a mythical realm from Irish folklore, often translated as "Land of the Young" or "Land of Eternal Youth." Unlike the mortal world, Tír na nÓg exists outside the constraints of time and aging, offering an existence free from the sorrows and struggles of life. Legends often describe it as a lush, vibrant land, filled with stunning landscapes and an ethereal quality that sets it apart from ordinary reality.

One of the most famous tales involving Tír na nÓg centers around the hero Oisín, a renowned poet and warrior from the Fenian Cycle of Irish myths. According to the legend, Oisín is swept away to Tír na nÓg by Niamh, a beautiful fairy queen who falls in love with him. Read the legendary story of Oisín & Niamh.

Where is Tír na nÓg?

It's a mythical realm that does not exist in any physical location on Earth. In Irish mythology, it is depicted as a magical, otherworldly place, often thought to lie across a mystical body of water or hidden within the landscape of the Otherworld.

Various legends suggest different ways to reach Tír na nÓg. Some stories describe it as being accessible by crossing the sea or traveling through enchanted portals located at the base of fairy trees. Others suggest that it might be located in the westernmost part of the world, reflecting ancient Irish beliefs that the west was a direction associated with the afterlife and other mystical realms. It exists outside the bounds of ordinary reality, embodying an idealized place of eternal youth and beauty rather than a concrete geographical location. This makes Tír na nÓg a powerful symbol of a utopian existence rather than a place that can be found on a map.

I have looked for maps of it online, and here is the best IMO. It shows the 4 legendary cities of Muria, Finias, Falias and Gorlas

There are also topdown mills in the Vintyri collection

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Sue's advice is correct - it is what I used for Dun Fingolfin - is your city bigger than that?

https://atlas.cdn.monsen.cc/atlas/peredur/hi/dun%20fingolfin.png

What a great work around - thanks @Royal Scribe

Click on Edit>Reshape>Mirror, then select what you want, then draw a line of the axis you want it flipped around. Not sure whether you need a mouse for that though, Helen

Perfect ridges - I really love that Sue. And it allows for different terrain types to be shown as you have got here. So, grassy, rocky, volcanic terrain will also show through. I really love that.

And sure, if you draw 8 sided snowflakes, then your drawn snowflakes have 8 sides - someone should tell the real snowflakes to get with it and advance to 8 pointed flakes - lazy things.

Hi, Ricko. I think the farm fields are a bit TOO large, especially given the scale. I would reduce them by reducing the scale dimensions in the Bitmap menu. At least, that is my opinion, and I accept if you don't go for it.

I absolutely LOVE the write-up. Very oriental mythos.

I always have specific Terrain sheets for different biomes on all my overland maps - i add them myself. So I applaud what you have done here.

Same here, but I was able to access it via the subfolder in the Annuals folder in the CC3+ intallation on the System Data folder on my drive that i installed CC3+ on.

I am going to exclude top down styles.

So I use Schley mostly, but I don't think that should be the one because it already has so many symbols.

That leaves my next two equal favourites - Jon Roberts - but few too symbols for me to use often; and Spectrum - which could do with a heap more symbols, but it is alone in depicting grass covered hills and even mountains, which I really like. That is a big omission from Schley - hint to the monthly freebies from Schley