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from‘an ancient Irish historical tale, The Death of Muircher- 
tach mac Erca, a passage which speaks of the Cathach, the 
Bell of St. Patrick, and the Miosach of St. Carnech, as the 
three great and celebrated relics of the Northern Hy-Niall 
and Hy-Connellians. 
If this be the Miosach here spoken of, it is a singular cir- 
cumstance that these three celebrated reliquaries now stand 
together on the table of the Academy, and will be exhibited 
together in the Antiquarian Court of our Dublin Exhibition. 
It is fair to say, however, that Dr. Petrie doubts whether 
the Bell of St. Patrick, now before the Academy, is the bell 
intended in the document just quoted as one of the three great 
Hy-Niall relics. There is another bell of St. Patrick in his 
own collection, which he conceives has an equal claim to be so 
considered. It is understood, however, that Dr. Petrie intends 
to exhibit his bell also, and therefore the remark just made will 
still prove true, that the three great relics of the Hy-Niall may 
this year be seen together in the singularly interesting anti- 
quarian collection which will be shortly open to the public in 
the Dublin Exhibition. 
Dr. Todd was unwilling to detain the Academy with any 
further discussion on this subject, as he hoped on a future oc- 
casion to make some further remarks on the Miosach when 
there was not so great a pressure of business before the Aca- 
demy. He omitted, also, all notice of the Bell of St. Patrick, 
because the admirable history of it drawn up by Dr. Reeves 
was already in the hands of all students of Irish archeology. 
Dr. Petrie made some observations on the several remains 
of antiquity exhibited to the meeting by Dr. Todd, and di- 
rected attention to the fact that such shrines or reliquaries 
usually exhibited work of different ages, consequent upon 
repairs or restorations, or from a desire to increase their 
beauty by additions, according to the prevailing taste of the 
