Roughly 400 known ogham inscriptions are on stone monuments scattered around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the fifth and sixth centuries. Their language is predominantly Primitive Irish, but a few examples record fragments of the Pictish language. Ogham itself is an Early Medieval form of alphabet or cipher, sometimes known as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet". A number of different numbering schemes are used. The most widespread is CIIC, after R. A. S. Macalister (Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, Latin for "corpus of Insular Celtic inscriptions"). This covers the inscriptions known by the 1940s. Another numbering scheme is that of the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project, CISP, based on the location of the stones; for example CIIC 1 = CISP INCHA/1. Macalister's (1945) numbers run from 1 to 507, including also Latin and Runic inscriptions, with three additional added in 1949. Ziegler lists 344 Gaelic ogham inscriptions known to Macalister (Ireland and Isle of Man), and seven additional inscriptions discovered later. The inscriptions may be divided into "orthodox" and "scholastic" specimens. "Orthodox" inscriptions date to the Primitive Irish period, and record a name of an individual, either as a cenotaph or tombstone, or documenting land ownership. "Scholastic" inscriptions date from the medieval Old Irish period up to modern times. The vast bulk of the surviving ogham inscriptions stretch in arc from County Kerry (especially Corcu Duibne) in the south of Ireland across to Dyfed in south Wales. The remainder are mostly in south-eastern Ireland, eastern and northern Scotland, the Isle of Man, and England around the Devon/Cornwall border. The vast majority of the inscriptions consists of personal names, probably of the person commemorated by the monument. (en)
Feictear inscríbhinní oghaim ar leachtanna cuimhneacháin de Cheiltigh na nOileán. Faightear an mhórchuid díobh in iardheisceart na hÉireann, agus thart timpeall an Mhuir Éireann — oirdheisceart na hÉireann, Corn na Breataine, an Bhreatain Bheag agus Oileán Mhanann. Téann siad siar chomh fada leis na 5ú agus 6ú haoiseanna. Is as Gaeilge Chianach a scríobhadh iad go formhór, ach tá cúpla ceann le blúiríní Cruithnise orthu, agus tá Laidin le feiceáil fosta. Tá tuairim is 400 inscríbhinn a bhfuil eolas orthu. Tá roinnt córas uimhrithe le fáil. Is é an córas is forleithne ná Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum (CIIC), bunaithe ar saothar R. A. S. Macalister. Faightear ann na hinscríbhinní aitheanta faoina 1940í, le 507 iontráil go dtí 1945, san áireamh inscríbhinní Laidine agus Rúnacha, agus trí cinn curtha ann i 1949. Córas eile is ea Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP), bunaithe ar suíomh na gcloch. Mar shampla, is ionann agus CISP INCHA/1. Is féidir na hinscríbhinní a roinnt idir cineálacha "ortadocsacha" agus "scolaíocha". Téann inscríbhinní ortadocsacha siar go dtí ré na Gaeilge Cianaí, agus record a ainm duine, nó ar leac uaighe, sin nó chun seilbh talún a chur in iúl. Téann inscríbhinní scolaíocha siar go dtí ré na Sean-Ghaeilge suas go dtí na linne seo. (ga)
Les inscriptions ogham sont un ensemble d'environ 350 textes écrits en alphabet ogham sur des monuments de pierre, datant des Ve et VIe siècles pour les plus anciens. Elles se trouvent disséminées sur les côtes de la mer d'Irlande. Elles transcrivent en majorité de l' (en) et parfois du picte. (fr)
Les inscriptions ogham sont un ensemble d'environ 350 textes écrits en alphabet ogham sur des monuments de pierre, datant des Ve et VIe siècles pour les plus anciens. Elles se trouvent disséminées sur les côtes de la mer d'Irlande. Elles transcrivent en majorité de l' (en) et parfois du picte. (fr)
Roughly 400 known ogham inscriptions are on stone monuments scattered around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the fifth and sixth centuries. Their language is predominantly Primitive Irish, but a few examples record fragments of the Pictish language. Ogham itself is an Early Medieval form of alphabet or cipher, sometimes known as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet". (en)
Feictear inscríbhinní oghaim ar leachtanna cuimhneacháin de Cheiltigh na nOileán. Faightear an mhórchuid díobh in iardheisceart na hÉireann, agus thart timpeall an Mhuir Éireann — oirdheisceart na hÉireann, Corn na Breataine, an Bhreatain Bheag agus Oileán Mhanann. Téann siad siar chomh fada leis na 5ú agus 6ú haoiseanna. Is as Gaeilge Chianach a scríobhadh iad go formhór, ach tá cúpla ceann le blúiríní Cruithnise orthu, agus tá Laidin le feiceáil fosta. (ga)