Róisín in ogham
The name Róisín. Said roh-SHEEN. Carved in ogham, the earliest script Irish ever had, exactly as this site’s transliteration rules draw it: bottom to top, the way the stones read.
Letter by letter
- R → R, scored across the stem
- O → O, notched on the stem
- I → I, notched on the stem
- S → S, scored to the right of the stem
- I → I, notched on the stem
- N → N, scored to the right of the stem
Ogham predates the síneadh fada, so Róisín carves without its accent. On paper, though, the fada is part of the name and not optional.
What this page deliberately does not say
You will find “meanings” for Róisín all over the internet. Most are folklore stacked on folklore, so this page makes no meaning or etymology claims at all. The carving is the product, and it is real: the same letter rules our ogham reference documents, applied by the same code that draws every ogham stroke on this site.