Ogham and the Irish in Britain

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[SunkenCiv]

Ogham and the Irish in Britain

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[SunkenCiv]

[Monkey Face]

Crikey.

No wonder I’m so messed up in the head!

‘Face

;o]

[SunkenCiv]

It's little known, but the writing system was developed by the O'Gham family in Muckanaghederdauhaulia, Galway. It took a month to carve the town name on the corner of the "welcome to" stone.

[Monkey Face]

I’ll have to put that in my Department of Useless Information file. (aka: Obscure and Arcane Trivia) You never know when I might need it for an icebreaker at a soiree. ;o]

[SunkenCiv]

Careful, I lie a lot. :^) It's the Irish in me. :^D

Muff, Donegal

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[COBOL2Java]

It's little known, but the writing system was developed by the O'Gham family in Muckanaghederdauhaulia, Galway. It took a month to carve the town name on the corner of the "welcome to" stone.

Did they carve the stone with Ogham's razor?

[SunkenCiv]

Dammit, I wish I'd have thought of that, and from now I, I did. ;^)

[Monkey Face]

Very punny! LOL!

‘Face

;o]

[Monkey Face]

I have lots of Irish in me...(IIRC we have a common ancestor) but if I lie, my nose grows.

;o]

[Salamander]

On some of the glacial boulders near my house, there are distinct “cup” marks.

No idea why “Indians” would have made those.

Pretty sure the boulders weren’t carried from Europe, either.

Sometimes chipmunks use them to hold the acorns they’re cracking open.

Pretty sure the chipmunks didn’t bore holes into granite, either.

;)

[Varda]

You still have that wacko story about the Irish in West Virginia (do the markings look like Irish script - maybe if you drank enough moonshine). My Irish faculty advisor would be proud.

[MissEdie]

Have you heard the one about the Irish in SC that were in the Upstate region when Desoto (I believe it was him) went exploring?

[Varda]

There’s lots of stories like that. They all get investigated. Thomas Jefferson started American archeology because of stories that the large sometimes elaborate Indian mounds were made by an unknown race. He investigated some mounds and found Indian burials.

[SuzyQue]

“by 400 Irish and British were fully differing languages”?

British is now a language? I assume they’re talking about English, but in their effort to remove the word “English” and to erase the historical record, they are “Britishizing” everything.

[Albion Wilde]

by 400 Irish and British were fully differing languages, and additionally Christians from both nations used different scripts (Latin and Ogham) for their memorials.

[SunkenCiv]

Uilleann = elbow ... interesting, that explains the name of the Uilleann pipes.

[SunkenCiv]

Irish (Q-celtic) and British (P-celtic) were differing before, and this had nothing to do with the English. Odd really that the Saxons were the majority of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (from which they took the name much later) but the country was named after the Angles.

[SuzyQue]

Interesting! Thanks.

[colorado tanker]

You are in rare form today, Civ!