at Durrow, and believed to be a relic of Columba (Colum Cille). The shrine was lost in the 17th century, but its appearance, including an inscription recording the king's patronage, is recorded in a note from 1677, now bound into the book as folio IIv, although other inscriptions are not transcribed. Once in their shrines, such manuscripts were rarely if ever removed for use as a book. Lough Kinale Book Shrine The earliest-known is also the largest surviving example. Dated to the late 8th or early 9th century, it was not rediscovered until 1986 when found by divers at a depth of of water in the County Longford side of Lough Kinale. Moss speculates that it was thrown in the water to evade being taken during a local chieftain feud or before a Viking raid. The inner structure is of oak, lined with tin and bronze plates attached by nails. Its front-side contains a large central cross, five bosses in bronze, and four rounded openwork medallions containing spiral and lentoid patterns. The figures on the sides include beast heads. A 2016 valuation by the NMI priced the object at £2 million (€2.54 million). Soiscél Molaisse The Soiscél Molaisse, also known as the Sheskill Molash, is the oldest surviving example largely in its original form, and was made in the early 11th century to hold the gospels of Molaise. It measures high, wide and thick and was built in three phases. The wooden core with bronze casing is 8th century, to which silver plaques were fastened with nails and rivets in the 11th century, and it was re-worked again in the 14th or 15th century. Some of the figures and other elements date to the 14th century, and can be identified as they were soldered to the plates. The top face is mainly silvered bronze and silver-gilt and contains panels the four symbols of the Evangelists in the spaces between a cross. Some of the panels are lost; those that remain have gold filigree interlaced knotwork. The filigree on the arms of the cross are gilted and decorated with ribbon interlace. The ends of the arms were set with gems, now also lost except for one blue stone. Two of panels around the sides are lost. The two remaining contain interlace and Latin inscription around their borders. Its small size indicates that the original object, like the Book of Dimma, was