April 06, 2003
Set in stone
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I got sunburnt today. Whatever genes my ancestors passed on to me, (Celtic/Anglo-Saxon/Viking/milkman), they are ill-equipped for an onshore breeze while standing on Downpatrick Head. It was 19 degrees and sunny in Belmullet today, and even warmer in Galway.
Breastagh Ogham stone, an 8 foot Bronze Age monument near Killala bay in Mayo. This is actually the first ogham stone I have ever seen in the wild, as it were (though I remember having to write my name 'in ogham' in national school.
The inscription reads LGG SD LE ESCAD - which roughly translates as "No superdump in North Mayo".
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