page_title: Primitive Irish
hierarchical_section_title: Primitive Irish
caption_attribution_description: English: Sources: McManus 1991, pp. 46, 48; Kermode 1907, pp. 437-450; Macalister, 1945; Thomas &amp; Forsyth, 2017
context_page_description: Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages. It is known only from fragments, mostly personal names, inscribed on stone in the ogham alphabet in Ireland and western Great Britain from around the 4th to the 7th or 8th centuries.
context_section_description: Primitive Irish or Archaic Irish (Irish: Gaeilge Ársa) is the oldest known form of the Goidelic languages. It is known only from fragments, mostly personal names, inscribed on stone in the ogham alphabet in Ireland and western Great Britain from around the 4th to the 7th or 8th centuries.
caption: Map with original locations of orthodox ogham inscriptions already found.
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