Touch the Past in 3D: Mayo's Ogham Stones Go Digital
A heritage digitisation project is bringing Mayo's ancient Ogham stones into the digital age — letting you zoom, rotate, and explore inscriptions from anywhere in the world.
In-depth guides on Ogham history, the Celtic alphabet, name meanings, tattoo ideas, and everything in between.
A heritage digitisation project is bringing Mayo's ancient Ogham stones into the digital age — letting you zoom, rotate, and explore inscriptions from anywhere in the world.
A 9th-century Irish scribe left a margin note that has survived over 1,000 years. It reads, essentially, "I have a massive hangover." We feel seen.
Every Ogham character is named after a tree or plant. Here's what each one means, and where the connection between Ireland's ancient alphabet and the natural world comes from.
Irish mythology attributes the invention of Ogham to Ogma, a warrior-scholar god of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Here's what the myths tell us about the man behind the script.
Ogham wasn't just an inscription script — medieval Irish scholars developed elaborate cipher systems using it to encode secret messages. Here's how they worked.
The Gone Medieval podcast recently dedicated an episode to Ogham — a forgotten medieval alphabet. Here's a summary of what they covered and why it's worth a listen.