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semi-circular ornament on the front side of the shriue, are engraved on. 

 a round shield, the arms of O'Donel, a forearm sleeved and cuffed issuing 

 from the dexter side holding a cross crosslet fitchy, supported on the dexter 

 side by a lion, and on the sinister by a bull. Above the shield is a coronet 

 surmounted by a helmet and crest — two arms in armour bent and crossed, 

 the dexter holding a sword transfixing (a boar's head) (?), the sinister a heart. 

 Below is the motto IN hoc signo vinces, and depending from the shield is 

 the cross of some order of chivalry; the achievement is placed upon an 

 ermine-lined mantle. On the base of the ornament the crest is repeated ; 

 the following inscription is engraved round the ledge : — 



lACOBO • 3 • M • B • EEGE EXULANTE, DANIEL DONEL, INXTIANI3S.°IMP.° PECEFECTUS 



KEI BELLICCE, HUSUSCE HCEEADITAEII S"" COLUMBANI 



PIGiNOEIS, VULGO CAAH DICTI, TEGMEN AEGENTEUM TETDSTATE 



CONSUMPTVM EESTAUEAUIT ANNO SALUTIS 1723 • 



The engraver evidently cut the last letter of the name o donel as a T, 

 subsequently altering it to an L ; the cross-stroke of the T stUl remains. 



The Brigadier, who died without issue in 17-")5, left directions in his will 

 that the shriue should be given to the person who should prove himself to be 

 the head of the O'Donels. It was discovei'ed at Paris in a Monastery in 

 which, apparently, it had been deposited by Brigadier Daniel O'Donel : it 

 was brought back to Ireland by Sir Capel Molyneux, Bt., and delivered by 

 him to Sir- ISTeale O'Donel, Bt., in 1802.' 



Accounts of the discovery of the shrine differing in some particulars from 

 the above are given by O'Donovan, Annals of the Four Masters, vol. vi, 

 Appendix, p. 2400 ; and by O'Curry, MS. Materials, 1861, p. 331. 



' Bill of Complaint of Lady O'Donel, filed in Chancery on the 30th April, 1814 : 

 Pedigree of the O'Donels, compiled by Sir William Betham. 



