Qualla: Cloghanecarhan https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/z/cloghanecarhan-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Cloghanecarhan https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan Cloghanecarhan: Introduction https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan/ Photo credit Eeno11, CC BY-SA 3.0. The inscription is in ogham - rows of straight lines cut across an edge of slate, each pattern of strokes standing for a letter in the earliest written form of Irish. The stone is just over two metres tall, the inscription scratched into it sometime around AD 600. It reads, when scholars decode the strokes: 'of Ec...án? son of Mac-Cáirthinn'. Underneath that, faintly visible, is an older inscription that someone tried to erase to make room for the newer one. The name Mac-Cáirthinn means 'devotee of the rowan tree', the small mountain tree the old Irish believed could ward off evil spirits. The stone leans against a ringfort that is itself older still, in a field at the western edge of the Iveragh Peninsula, 7.2 kilometres south-southeast of the town of Cahersiveen.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/z/cloghanecarhan-wp/gc0z-cloghanecarhan-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Cloghanecarhan: What Ogham Is https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan/ Photo credit Eeno11, CC BY-SA 3.0. Ogham is one of the oldest written forms of any Celtic language, used in Ireland from roughly the 4th to the 7th centuries AD. The script uses groups of straight lines - one to five strokes - cut perpendicular to or angled across a central stem line, usually the edge of a standin...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/z/cloghanecarhan-wp/gc0z-cloghanecarhan-what-ogham-is.mp3 0:06 2 full Cloghanecarhan: The Overwritten Stone https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan/ Photo credit Eeno11, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Cloghanecarhan stone has something unusual: two inscriptions, one over the other. The visible inscription - the one most easily read - is EQQẸGGNỊ [MA]Q̣[I] ṂẠQI-CAṚATTỊNN. The cataloguers of the Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum gave it the number CIIC 230. The gramm...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/z/cloghanecarhan-wp/gc0z-cloghanecarhan-the-overwritten-stone.mp3 0:06 3 full Cloghanecarhan: The Devotee of the Rowan https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan/ Photo credit Eeno11, CC BY-SA 3.0. The name Mac-Cáirthinn that appears in the inscription means literally 'son of the rowan'. The rowan tree - sorbus aucuparia, the mountain ash - was sacred in Irish folk tradition, believed to ward off witches and malevolent spirits. The early Irish often took names like this, on...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/z/cloghanecarhan-wp/gc0z-cloghanecarhan-the-devotee-of-the-rowan.mp3 0:06 4 full Cloghanecarhan: The Ringfort and Its Pieces https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan/ Photo credit Eeno11, CC BY-SA 3.0. The ogham stone originally stood at the eastern entrance of the ringfort, the cashel, that it shares the site with. It has since been moved, and it now lies on the north side. The ringfort itself is circular, enclosed by an earthen bank with an entrance at the east and stone pill...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/z/cloghanecarhan-wp/gc0z-cloghanecarhan-the-ringfort-and-its-pieces.mp3 0:06 5 full Cloghanecarhan: What the Townland Name Says https://qualla.com/cloghanecarhan/ Photo credit Eeno11, CC BY-SA 3.0. Even the name Cloghanecarhan carries layered meanings. The first element, cloghan, can mean either 'ford of stepping-stones' - a reference to crossing the small Direen stream that runs nearby - or 'stone beehive hut', the small corbelled stone shelters built by monks and herders ...

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