County Waterford, Ireland Ogham

Photo showing the 2 stones with their Ogham inscriptions. Only the foreground stone is considered here. It has a second inscription on its other side.

Drom Lócháin Stones in Context

Drom Lócháin Ogham Stone One,  County Waterford, Ireland 500's CE

(December 12, 2024)  I-WAT-012 (CIIC 273; Drom Lócháin/Drumlohan, Co. Waterford, Ireland)

Translation Using Ballymote Letter Assignments and Druid Akkadian (Ogham Text 5)

Read bottom to top. Sides are main face. Capital letters on object. Small letters are inferred Inner vowels. Verbs are italic bold. Dual use letters are E/H, I/Y, U/W, and '/A in which vowel appears at beginning of words except for Yahu which is keeping its traditional Hebrew transliteration
Top Direction: Sides
  1. Ku  APu  U  Ne'u  Ṣu  IKu
  2. Mu Ku KaYu.  Mu  U  Ka'u  IPu  ITu [2 or 3 letters]

In English

  1. Involving the veil and emotional-effects will activate the irrigation-network (life network)
  2. Fertility-fluids will involve prodding. Fertility-fluids and the Prodders (Thu and star Sirius) will free-up the foreshadowing of [1 or 2 words]

Previous Ogham Translation Attempt Using Post-Oppression Lettering

  1. CALUNOVIC[A]  MAQI  MUCOI  LIT[EN]Ị

Proposed English Translation

  1. of *Calunovics from the kin-group of *Lithen (*Litenas)

Comment: The result is just names which are a linguistic cheat because they can cluster any arbitrary set of letters.


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