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Ballaqueeney Ogham Stone from the Isle of Man showing the droim in centre. Text reads: BIVAIDONAS MAQI MUCOI CUNAVA[LI] ᚁᚔᚃᚐᚔᚇᚑᚅᚐᚄ ᚋᚐᚊᚔ ᚋᚒᚉᚑᚔ ᚉᚒᚅᚐᚃᚐ[ᚂᚔ], or in English: Bivaidonas, son of the tribe Cunava[li]Map of Ireland, Isle of Man and Britain; black dots mark Ogham inscriptions.
Roughly 400 known ogham inscriptions are on stone monuments scattered around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the fifth and sixth centuries. Their language is predominantly Primitive Irish, but a few examples record fragments of the Pictish language. Ogham itself is an Early Medieval form of alphabet or cipher, sometimes known as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet".
A number of different numbering schemes are used. The most widespread is CIIC, after R. A. S. Macalister (Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, Latin for "corpus of Insular Celtic inscriptions"). This covers the inscriptions known by the 1940s. Another numbering scheme is that of the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project, CISP, based on the location of the stones; for example CIIC 1 = CISP INCHA/1. Macalister's (1945) numbers run from 1 to 507, including also Latin and Runic inscriptions, with three additional added in 1949. Ziegler lists 344 Gaelic ogham inscriptions known to Macalister (Ireland and Isle of Man), and seven additional inscriptions discovered later.
The inscriptions may be divided into "orthodox" and "scholastic" specimens. "Orthodox" inscriptions date to the Primitive Irish period, and record a name of an individual, either as a cenotaph or tombstone, or documenting land ownership. "Scholastic" inscriptions date from the medieval Old Irish period up to modern times.
The vast bulk of the surviving ogham inscriptions stretch in an arc from County Kerry (especially Corcu Duibne) in the south of Ireland across to Dyfed in south Wales. The remainder are mostly in south-eastern Ireland, eastern and northern Scotland, the Isle of Man, and England around the Devon/Cornwall border. The vast majority of the inscriptions consist of personal names, probably of the person commemorated by the monument.
including also Latin and Runic inscriptions, with three additional added in 1949. Ziegler lists 344 Gaelic oghaminscriptions known to Macalister (Ireland...
Irish language (in the "orthodox" inscriptions, 4th to 6th centuries AD), and later the Old Irish language (scholastic ogham, 6th to 9th centuries). There...
apparently unintelligible oghaminscriptions found in historically Pictish areas (compare Oghaminscription § Scholastic inscriptions). A similar position...
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the Ogham alphabet in Ireland and western Great Britain between the 4th and the 6th century AD, before the advent of Old Irish. These inscriptions are...
article contains Ogham text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Ogham letters. The forfeda...
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of Oghaminscriptions are in Pictish but a number of Goidelic Oghaminscriptions also exist, such as the Giogha Stone which bears the inscription VICULA...
Doonee Ogham Stone is an early medieval memorial stone with inscriptions carved in Latin and Ogham. The stone was discovered in 1911 during the excavation...
Ballaqueeney Ogham Stone is an early medieval memorial stone with an Oghaminscription. It was discovered at Ballaqueeney (Ballaquine) Isle of Man in 1874...
the same tendency occurs in Greek inscriptions incised on bronze. In the north of Europe the Oghaminscriptions are alphabetic, and are apparently an...
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January 1887). OghamInscriptions in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. D. Douglas – via Internet Archive. ballycrovane ad. "Ballycrovane Ogham Stone". "Journal...
Neolithic burial site. On top of the cairn, there is a leacht with an Oghaminscription on it that reads [...] MAQI R[...], signifying that the name of the...
with an Oghaminscription on each side. The find dates from the 7th to the 10th century. The Tullycommon bone has a short Oghaminscription next to various...
be included: Jes. Gen. XVIII Manogan m. Pascen m. Cadell; and the Oghaminscription MINNACCANNI (Macalister, Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum...
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Insular Celtic languages are attested from the 4th century AD in Oghaminscriptions, though they were clearly being spoken much earlier. Celtic literary...
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