In county Mayo this month there is the annual heritage week to celebrate Irish history where Ogham stones and art takes centre stage. Also this week the famous artist John Hayes finished his wood tree carving of the felled tree in Ballyvourney, Co.Cork. The tree sculpture he carved depicts ancient legends about St Gobnait, the…
Most people who visit our trade stands are quite amazed that the majority of our Ogham gifts have a wall mounting D ring. Even though art being art, its really up to the customer to choose where and how to present our Ogham Art. At Artymaniac we do encourage our buyers to hang the Ogham…
We are delighted to launch our own Ogham Translator which converts Irish / English into Ogham writing (horizontal or vertical). The Ogham Translator can be embedded into any blog, travel website, information website or academic website etc to enable visitors to experience the old Irish language for themselves. To get the Ogham Translator for your…
People really love gifts that have special meaning and there is none better than a gift that has a person’s initial of their first name or surname engraved in Ogham writing. Ogham pebbles are so smooth, small and cute that makes it an irresistible present. All our pebbles come in lovely cloth packaging and are…
The World Library and Information Congress is held in Dublin city centre from the 26th to the 28th July 2022 at the Convention Centre Dublin. Artymaniac will be exhibiting in the Arts & Crafts section in the main pavilion. For full details of the event visit https://2022.ifla.org/
There is no doubt that an Ogham stone hanging in the home brings a strong connection to Irish roots. We have had many orders from North America of customers wanting their family name engraved in Ogham or UK customers wanting certain words of meaning that creates a bond in their lives to Ireland. No matter…
We were positioned in the Crafts and Business pavilion in a lovely super long tent. We were so surprised at the number of other attendees as the tent was over 150 meters in length. Estimates state there were over 15,000 visitors at the show. Our stand received over 200 visitors who were very intrigued by…
This stone pair is located on someone’s private property, behind electric gates so we had to ask for permission to enter the property to get access to these stones. There are two standing stones, but only the stone on the left is an Ogham stone, while the second Ogham stone is laying on its flat…
This Ogham stone is quite hard to reach due to the dense forest and stream, so after many attempts to reach it, and after an hour and more of walking around through the fields, we can clearly advice all potential visitors to park your vehicle at the Reisk cross road and walk down the small…
After visiting this site you kind of pause and ask yourself why did the early Christens use Ogham stones in the building of this church? Was it because it was the easiest thing to do or was it because they wanted to wipe out old Pagan history in the area? The site itself is basically…