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VII. 

 THE DOMNACH AIRGLD. 



J'.v E. C. II. ARMSTRONG, F.S.A., M.E.I.A., 



AND 



The Rev. PROFESSOR H. J. LAWLOR, D.D., Lrrr.D. 

 Plates III-V. 



Bead December 10, 1917. Published March 12, 1918. 



I. Desciuftion. By E. C. K. Armstrong. 



The /' .1 i was obtained by the Academy in 1847; it had been 



previously described by Dr. G. I'etrie, in the Academy's Transactions, 

 vol. xviii, 1 . Dr. J. H. Bernard* (now Archbishop of Dublin, 



ami President of the Academy) also referred to the Domnach in his paper 

 on tin' MS, found inside it ; and a short account of the shrine extracted from 

 Peti Luded in tin- Academj l ' ttian Guide.' 



miry, ninth edition, 1869, 



vol. i. contains, pp. 1"_'-.". two letters about the Domnach ; the first of these, 



Au{ written by Dr. A. O'Beirne, who mentioned a 



drawing of tie- shrii t to Mi. Carleton, and added "In the 



they tie' inscriptions] are referred to Iheix supposed 



The Becond letter, from Sir William Betham, is dated October, 



_' : he wri ••. " 1 in the Dona, which was exhibited at the last 



[rish Academy. It has been put together at a guess, 



but different from the drawing." This drawing i> probably the one referred 



to in-. In the same letter Sir William Betham also wrote: 



inscriptions on tin' Dona: one on a scroll from the hand of 



the fig the Bapl V. A - Del The two others are on plates 



Iver, but their exact position on the box is not marked in the drawing, 



but may l>e guessed by certain places which the plates exactly fit." 



A ither description of the 1> might be considered unnecessary ; 



but I :, upon which all subsequent accounts have been based, was 



mainly directed to pi t the reliquary was the identical one given by 



P. 14, teq. / • 1 i{ Irish Academy, \\\. p. 303, seq. 



\- , 15, MS, 94 



