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the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, where it has been deposited since 1843, there is a very remarkable cumdach, the property of E. Thomas O'Donel, Esq., It is of silver, overlaid, in some parts, with gold. From an inscription on the shrine itself, and another on the case in which in later days it was enclosed, we learn something of its history. It was constructed between 1062 and 1098, at the order of Cathbarr O'Donnell, the head of the clan of which St. Columba of Iona was a member, and Domhnall mac Robartaigh, comarb of St. Columba at Kells, by Sitric, one of a family of artificers who had some connexion with the monastery of Kells. It was repaired some Rh