Clonmacnois Ogham Stone
Clonmacnois Monastic Site Co. OFFALY
This stone was found in 1822 by Petrie, then it got lost but now has now been found again.... Horizontal Ogham on stone example. First recorded in 1822, it features both Roman-alphabet script spelling "Colman" and a secondary Ogham inscription. It is safely housed and displayed within the site's visitor center.
Some have 'declared' that Thcob should be read as Bocht. No clarity as to why it should be read backwards but other written info on Ogham such as found in Auraicept na hÉces, a 12th century collection of older manuscripts disagrees. In Auraicept na hÉces we are told how to read Ogham: “Ogham is climbed (i.e. read) as a tree is climbed, i.e. treading (feet) on the root of the tree first with one’s right hand before and one’s left hand last. After that it is across it and against it and through it and around it". This 'root' we are to stand on is obviously the root of the tree and the trunk is the stem of the tree. We stand with our feet at the root to read Ogham.
The term “feather-mark” was coined by R. A. S. Macalister, an early twentieth-century ogham scholar. Macalister described the shape as resembling an arrow shot across the page, with the ᚛ symbol standing in for the fletching / feather at the tail end of the shaft, marking where reading should begin and in which direction. Mind you - the same man believed that Ogham originated in Cis Alpine Gaul!
In my book "OgamNua a seekers guide" I refer to the fletching feather as "roots or feet" as I was writing horizontally and from left to right.
If the person who carved Thcob was a stonemason without knowledge of Ogham: he would simply do as asked. To get paid. Thcob as Latin or old Irish means no thing at all. It would then only be recognised by regular users of Ogham as back to front words that tries to hide its meaning. Bocht in Irish translates to Poor in English. If the person who caused Bocht to be carved into a grave slab wanted people to know that Colman was poor then writing it in backwards Ogham really limits the readership... Ah shure who knows?
Get my book at https://www.celticdruidtemple.com/ogamnua-book.html
Clonmacnois Monastic Site Co. OFFALY
This stone was found in 1822 by Petrie, then it got lost but now has now been found again.... Horizontal Ogham on stone example. First recorded in 1822, it features both Roman-alphabet script spelling "Colman" and a secondary Ogham inscription. It is safely housed and displayed within the site's visitor center.
Some have 'declared' that Thcob should be read as Bocht. No clarity as to why it should be read backwards but other written info on Ogham such as found in Auraicept na hÉces, a 12th century collection of older manuscripts disagrees. In Auraicept na hÉces we are told how to read Ogham: “Ogham is climbed (i.e. read) as a tree is climbed, i.e. treading (feet) on the root of the tree first with one’s right hand before and one’s left hand last. After that it is across it and against it and through it and around it". This 'root' we are to stand on is obviously the root of the tree and the trunk is the stem of the tree. We stand with our feet at the root to read Ogham.
The term “feather-mark” was coined by R. A. S. Macalister, an early twentieth-century ogham scholar. Macalister described the shape as resembling an arrow shot across the page, with the ᚛ symbol standing in for the fletching / feather at the tail end of the shaft, marking where reading should begin and in which direction. Mind you - the same man believed that Ogham originated in Cis Alpine Gaul!
In my book "OgamNua a seekers guide" I refer to the fletching feather as "roots or feet" as I was writing horizontally and from left to right.
If the person who carved Thcob was a stonemason without knowledge of Ogham: he would simply do as asked. To get paid. Thcob as Latin or old Irish means no thing at all. It would then only be recognised by regular users of Ogham as back to front words that tries to hide its meaning. Bocht in Irish translates to Poor in English. If the person who caused Bocht to be carved into a grave slab wanted people to know that Colman was poor then writing it in backwards Ogham really limits the readership... Ah shure who knows?
Get my book at https://www.celticdruidtemple.com/ogamnua-book.html
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