The Springmount Bog Tablets are a set of six wooden wax tablets dating to the late 7th or early 8th century that were discovered in 1914 in the Springmount bog near Ballyhutherland, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The tablets form a booklet with text from the Book of Psalms inscribed on the wax surface of the wooden pages.
The tablets are considered to be the earliest surviving example of Irish writing in the Latin script,[1] and were included as no.
[5] The Vulgate (Latin) text of parts of Psalms 30 through 32 (31–33 in modern numbering) has been inscribed on the wax surface using a stylus.
[1][8] It is thought that the tablets came from a monastery near where they were found, and were probably used for teaching literacy and as an aid for memorizing the Psalms.