The longest word in modern Irish, I’m told – or at least the longest you might meet in the wild, as opposed to one created in laboratory conditions – is grianghrafadóireachta, an adjective meaning “of ...

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.

On a hill above Ballycrovane harbour stands a tall, thin pinnacle of stone, standing over four metres high and clearly visible from the bay, as one sails from the open Atlantic into the safe haven ...

Academics from Ireland and Scotland are harnessing cutting-edge digital and 3D technologies to help to protect the inscriptions and transform our understanding of the ancient Celtic Ogham writing ...

Irish and Scottish academics are using digital and 3D technologies to protect ancient Celtic Ogham writings. The 1,500-year-old alphabet appears on monuments and objects dating back to the fourth ...

Academics from Ireland and Scotland are harnessing cutting-edge digital and 3D technologies to help to protect the inscriptions and transform our understanding of the ancient Celtic Ogham writing ...

The mystical ancient Irish alphabet of Ogham inspired this gorgeous glassware collection from Waterford Crystal. Ireland is a country of saints, scholars, and storytellers, where words have always ...

A new website containing a database of 3D images of Ogham stones from all around Ireland has been launched in Dublin. The Ogham 3D Project, based at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, has used ...

SOME of the more intriguing national monuments in Ireland are the ogham stones which are found in little clusters or as single stones, especially on the Dingle Peninsula. This Friday, July 23, the ...

How did a 1,600 year old Ogham stone end up in a teachers garden in Coventry? We find out how with Teresa Gilmore an Archaeologist and finds liaison officer for Staffordshire and West Midlands.