Ogham tattoo translation

crusha101

Hi I am looking at getting my family names tattooed in ogham writing , I understand ogham was not a language but an alphabet so its fairly hard to translate directly , anyone know how i can go about translating irish surnames to ogham , i don't quite trust the online translators, thanks a million for any help.

Bluefoam

I researched the same.... My uncle gave me allot of advice & is a Gaeilgeoir and something of a historian & scholar... No one can be sure what the original alphabet truly was, it was probably quite loose and different from region to region, clan to clan... There are two main ones online & either are acceptable in modern terms.

My advice is:

• chose the alphabet you are most comfortable with
• translate into accurate Irish (I'd be looking at older dialects)

If you do both of these things, you are staying relatively true to the origins of ogham & should be satisfied with the resulting script. I haven't had mine done yet, but I will. The aim for me is that the message is concealed and have allot of meaning, but only for me & those who know... it will be quite original visually.

Allot of Ogham is read from bottom to top, but I believe it can also be used the other way around... Most important is its meaning to you

raze_them_all_

Bluefoam wrote: »

I researched the same.... My uncle gave me allot of advice & is a Gaeilgeoir and something of a historian & scholar... No one can be sure what the original alphabet truly was, it was probably quite loose and different from region to region, clan to clan... There are two main ones online & either are acceptable in modern terms.

My advice is:

• chose the alphabet you are most comfortable with
• translate into accurate Irish (I'd be looking at older dialects)

If you do both of these things, you are staying relatively true to the origins of ogham & should be satisfied with the resulting script. I haven't had mine done yet, but I will. The aim for me is that the message is concealed and have allot of meaning, but only for me & those who know... it will be quite original visually.

Allot of Ogham is read from bottom to top, but I believe it can also be used the other way around... Most important is its meaning to you

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Bluefoam

I did say to translate into accurate Irish...

Bluefoam

I did say to translate into accurate Irish...

bobdcow

Ogham is read bottom up