Traces of Ogham can still be found all across Ireland. The ancient script of Ogham, sometimes known now as the 'Celtic Tree Alphabet,' originally contained 20 letters grouped into four groups of five.

Colleen Berry Conway runs Ogham Art with her husband Chris and she takes us through the history of the ancient Irish alphabet. IrishCentral has partnered with Ogham Art to give our readers a ...

The phonetic ogham alphabet. In areas which were part of the Roman Empire, these were typically in Latin using the Latin or Roman alphabet. However in Ireland, ...

Ogham (pronounced 'oh-um') is an ancient alphabet which was used for inscriptions on stones in Ireland, and the United Kingdom, in 4th Century AD. There are only about 375 inscriptions known and ...

Insular script was a medieval alphabet that was once widespread across Britain and was primarily used for writing Latin. There are 400 known ogham inscriptions and just 10 have been found in ...

The ogham alphabet was used to write the Irish language in the early medieval period, often in inscriptions on stones. (Image credit: The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum) Irish script.

The ogham script was likely carved into the rock sometime during the fifth or sixth century, though the markings may have been made as early as the fourth century.

‘Ogham’ is the earliest written form of primitive Irish and the oldest of the Gaelic languages and an event coming to Quinnipiac will teach you all about it!