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The Ogham Stone - Liberty Mill's illustrated guide to this ancient Irish writing system, with a complete table of Ogham characters. Examples of standing stones with Ogham inscriptions. Links.
Ogham Inscriptions Index - Jost Gippert of Frankfurt University aims to provide a new edition of the corpus of ogham inscriptions. Photographs with translations of ogham stones from Ireland, Wales and Scotland. Bibliography.
Ogham - Rob Gombach of Utah State University discusses the various theories of the origins of this Irish writing system, and their drawbacks. He argues for the alphabet having been influenced by Greek writing.
The Traditional History of the Ogham - An essay by Kevin Jones arguing for a derivation from the Greek alphabet.
Celtic Ogham - Curtis Clark describes this old Irish alphabet and the plants that correspond to it. He considers its origins in the light of the distribution of those plants, with maps.
Understanding Oghams - Basic overview of the history and use of Oghams.
Ogham Designer Jewellery - Scottish Celtic jewellery store that bases many of its designs on the Celtic Alphabet, Ogham.
Celtic Ogham Runes - Handmade, inscribed green glass stones with descriptive book.
The Voice of the Woods - Online divination system in which the user asks a question, to be presented with the past, present and future.
Merlin's Cave - Handcrafted fruitwood rune sets and ogham sticks.

Ogham - Ogham (Old Irish] Ogam or Oġam) is an [[Early Medieval alphabet used primarily to represent the "Old Irish" language. Ogham is sometimes referred to as the "Celtic Tree Alphabet".
Ogham inscription - There are roughly 400 known Ogham inscriptions scattered around the Irish Sea, the bulk of them dating to the 5th and 6th centuries. Their language is predominantly Primitive Irish, but a few examples record fragments of the Pictish language.
Nion - Nion is the Irish name of the fifth letter of the Ogham alphabet, , probably meaning "fork". In Old Irish, the letter name was Nin, a name which is notable for referring both to a specific letter, and to any of the Ogham letters in general.
Bríatharogam - A Bríatharogam ("word ogham", plural Bríatharogaim) is a list of kennings for the names of the letters of the Ogham script. Three variants have been preserved, dating to the Old Irish period.
Straif - Straif is the Irish name of the fourteenth letter of the Ogham alphabet, . Old Irish spelling variants are straif, straiph, zraif, sraif, sraiph, sraib.