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"I shall endeavor to arrange these evidences in consecutive order. "It is of importance to prove that this cumdach, or reliquary, has been from time immemorial popularly known by the name of Domnach, or, as it is pronounced, Donagh, a word derived from the Latin Dominicus. This fact is proved by a recent popular tale of very great power, by Mr.
"In this version, which is unquestionably prior to all the others, we find the Domnach distinguished by the appellation of Airgid an addition which was applicable only to its more ancient or silver plated case, and which could not with propriety be applied to its more recent covering, which in its original state had the appearance of being of gold.
"The Irish word Domnach, which is pronounced Dona, means the Lord's day, or the first day in the week, sanctified or consecrated to the service of the Lord. It is also in that sense used for a house, church, or chapel. Donayhmore means the great church or chapel dedicated to God.
John Groyes in his account of the parish of Errigal-Keeroch in the third volume of Shaw Mason's Parochial Survey, page 163, though, as the writer states, it was not actually preserved in that parish. The inscriptions on the external case leave no doubt that the Domnach belonged to the monastery of Clones, or see of Clogher. The John O'Karbri, the Comharb, or successor of St.
"On these evidences and more might probably be procured if time had allowed we may, I think, with tolerable certainty, rest the following conclusions: "1. That the Domnach is the identical reliquary given by St. Patrick to St. Mac-Carthen.
"From this passage we learn one great-cause of the sanctity in which this reliquary was held, and of the uses of the several recesses for reliques which it presents. It also explains the historical rilievo on the top the figure of St. Patrick presenting the Domnach to St. Mac-Carthen. In Jocelyn's Life of St.
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.
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