Ballyboodan Ogham Stone

Located near Knocktopher in south Kilkenny, the Ballyboodan Ogham Stone was carved from a piece of slate measuring 2.31m by 1.75m. It has an ogham inscription which is thought to have been carved between 700 and 900 AD. Ogham is an ancient Irish alphabet, and our earliest written source for the Irish language. The ogham alphabet uses a script made of lines cut on, across, or either side of a c...