“4. In Jocelyn's Life of St. Patrick (cap. 143) we have also a notice to the same effect, but in which the Domnach is called a _Chrismatorium_, and the relics are not specified--in all probability because they were not then appended to it. “In these authorities there is evidently much appearance of the Monkish frauds of the middle ages; but still they are evidences of the tradition of the country that such a gift had been made by Patrick to Mac-Carthen. And as we advance higher in chronological authorities, we find the notice of this gift stripped of much of its acquired garb of fiction, and related with more of the simplicity of truth. “5. In the life of St. Patrick called the Tripartite, usually ascribed to St. Evin, an author of the seventh century, and which, even in its present interpolated state, is confessedly prior to the tenth, there is the following remarkable passage (as translated by Colgan from the original Irish) relative to the gift of the Domnach from the Apostle of Ireland to St. Mac-Carthen, in which it is expressly described under the very same appellation which it still bears. “' Aliquantis ergo evolutis diebus _Mac-Caertennum_, sive _Caerthennum_ Episcopuin prsefecit sedi Episcopali Clocherensi, ab Ardmacha regni Metropoli haud multum distanti: et apud eum reliquit argenteum quoddam reliquiarium _Domnach-airgidh_ vulgo nuncupatum; quod viro Dei, in Hiberniam venienti, ccelitus missum erat.'--_VII. Vita S. Patricii_, Lib. in. cap. 3, _Tr. Th._ p. 149. “This passage is elsewhere given by Colgan, with a slight change of words in the translation. “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. “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.