Script - Ogham

Ogham is an ancient script used primarily to write the early Irish language, with inscriptions dating from roughly the 4th to 6th centuries CE. Carved typically on stone edges, its characters consist of groups of one to five straight strokes or notches, arranged relative to a central stem line, representing individual letters. The script’s value in digital text encoding signifies that a given character belongs to this historical writing system, enabling correct rendering and analysis of ancient inscriptions, though its modern usage is largely scholarly or decorative, preserving a unique linguistic heritage from Ireland and parts of western Britain.