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Celtic Ogham Script Ogham script is an early form of Old Irish and the first known Irish writing. The characters comprise a series of lines and notches that are scored across a long stem-line often on standing stones or wood. In the majority of cases the inscription is ready from the bottom up and usually names the person being commemorated along with their ancestors and the carver of the inscription. Over 350 Ogham stones are known with the majority found in southern Ireland from kerry to Waterford and in South Leinster. They also occur in small number sin western Scotland, the Isle of Man and in Cornwall at Lewannick where Irish settlers from Munster landed and founded communities. While the Ogham inscription repeated in Latin carved in Roman characters on the same stone.
. Evidence exists however, to support its use by Druids
for recording tales, histories, poetry, genealogies, and the like. In
addition, each letter was named for a particular tree, and a vast lore of
religious and mythological knowledge could be encoded in cryptic verse.
The names of the main twenty letters are the names of 20 trees sacred to
the druids.
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