Carlow Ceramic Coffee Mug

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$25.00

Up Carlow! Celebrate the Dolmen County while enjoying a cup or two with this hardy 15 oz ceramic mug! Our exclusive Ogham Art design features the County Carlow coat of arms, our Carlow bumper sticker in two languages and two alphabets, and a dropped location pin on the map of Ireland - all shadowed atop a background of the tricolor flag of Ireland.

All 32 counties available. Click here for entire collection.

15 oz mug dimensions: 4.69″ (11.9 cm) in height, 3.35″ (8.5 cm) in diameter
Dishwasher and microwave safe

Click here for our Carlow bumper sticker.
See our entire Counties of Ireland Bumper Sticker collection here.

U.S delivery only with FREE shipping! Printed on demand so please expect 1-2 weeks for delivery.

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Sláinte,
Colleen & Chris

Ogham is the earliest written form of Primitive Irish, the oldest of the Gaelic languages. Ogham was first used in Ireland and parts of England, Scotland and Wales between the 2nd and 6th centuries. Though its actual origins remain a mystery today, it is believed the Celts desired a cryptic alphabet that could not be deciphered by Roman Britain.

Ogham Alphabet

Ogham stone

Represented as a series of perpendicular and intersecting lines, this ancient script is thought to be influenced by the Latin alphabet using 20 characters. It is most commonly written vertically and is read from bottom to top. When presented horizontally, it is read from left to right.

Ogham was carved into stones and trees to mark land boundaries or to commemorate a member of the community. Today there are roughly 400 surviving stones featuring proper names, ancestral and tribal affiliations, and Latin words.