Irish Ogham and Ogham-Runic Texts

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
Main Faces: Sides
  1. Ku  APu  U  Ne'u  Ṣu  IKu
  2. Mu Ku KaYu.  Mu  U  Ka'u  IPu  ITu

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 Standard Translation Provided by David Stifter

  1. CALUNOVIC[A] MAQI MUCOI LIT[EN]Ị
  1. of *Calunovics from the kin-group of *Lithen (*Litenas)

Comment: The letter assignments are traditional and not Akkadian. The result is just names which are a linguistic cheat because they can cluster any arbitrary set of letters.


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Inchagoill Stone, County Galway, Ireland 700 CE

(December 19, 2024) Image from Macalister (1945). COUNTY OF GALWAY, BARONY OF ROSS, Inchagoill

The left crosses may be Christian crosses but they could also be Akkadian letter T's meaning "astrology magic."

Translation of the Runes in Druid Akkadian (Northern Text 46)

  1. LeYu  ELu  UZu  U  Ka'u  E  Ṭa'u  Nu
  2. Mu Du Ku DaMu  ENu  U  EḪu  

In English

  1. The layout of the high-life-powers is frustrated with the prodding of nothing by the near-realm's revelations (of fate).
  2. The fertility-fluid's manifestations are getting involved with the life-fluid's reassignments from cries-of-anguish.

Translation of Ogham Using Ballymote Letter Assignments and Druid Akkadian (Ogham Text 12)

Read right to left (bottom to top). 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
Main Face: Front
  1. IṢu  Nu  E  Mu  ISu  AMu

In English

  1. Scarcity is revealing ineffectiveness with the fertility-fluids from the Woman's (Ayu) Reed-boat (cresent moon).

References

Macalister, R A Stewart. 1945. Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum CelticarumVolume 1. Online at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Insularum_Celticaru/4jgaAAAAYAAJ?hl=en