Ireland History – Northern Irish History Belfast Dublin

Above: Shrine of Dimma’s Book Soiseeal Molaise, in the shape of a small oblong box, or cumhdack, was made for a copy of the Gospels believed to have belonged to Molaise who founded the monastery in Devenish in the sixth century. It is inscribed with a prayer for the successor of Molaise and for its artificer. [...]

Above: Black Bell of St Patrick Bells seem first to have been made of iron, hammered and riveted,   the joints  filled  afterwards,   and  the whole then dipped in  bronze.    They were quadrilateral in form,  andi would seem to have been sounded by being struck on thei outside.    Their height varied from four to fourteen inches, [...]