cumdachs

Updated: May 25, 2025

It will be remembered also that no superstition was and is more common in connection with the ancient cumdachs than the dread of their being opened. "These conclusions will, I think, be strengthened considerably by the facts, that the word Domnach, as applied either to a church, as usual, or to a reliquary, as in this instance, is only to be found in our histories in connection with St.

William Carleton - The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three