an alphabetical script used originally for inscriptions in an archaic form of Irish, from about the 5th to the 10th centuries.
any of the 20 characters of this script, each consisting of one or more strokes for consonants and of notches for vowels cut across or upon a central line on a stone or piece of wood.
an inscription employing this script.
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These inscriptions are called in Ireland “ogham;” they are principally straight lines, grouped in different ways.
Ogham, a sort of writing often used on tombstones to mark the names of the persons buried.
The alphabet of the Irish bard may have been the Beith-luis-nion, represented by the Ogham character, of which more hereafter.
It is to be regretted that the subject of Ogham writing has not been taken up by a careful and competent hand.
Each practice is quite as primitive an effort of nature as the Ogham of the Celtic bard.