But these lines are actually an inscription in ogham, an alphabet used to write the early Irish language after the fourth century and Old Irish from the sixth to the ninth centuries. Its discovery ...

The miraculous origin of the spring at Lourdes in France is well-documented, but in Ireland, there are about 3,000 holy wells ...

ought to be a country of trees” since the letters in the modern Irish alphabet are derived from Ogham letters named after trees. (The first entry under each letter in Dinneen’s Irish-English ...

The oldest remains of written Irish that we have are inscriptions on Ogham stones from the 5th and 6th centuries. Irish was first written in the Roman alphabet before the beginning of the 7th ...

Discuss with the children if they were able to find out from the clip where in Ireland the Ogham Stone was found. Ask the children to draw a map of Ireland and to plot the locations on a map.