The Breac Maodhóg (English: Speckled Shrine of Saint Maedog)[3] is a relatively large Irish house-shaped reliquary, today in the National Museum of Ireland.

They wear elaborate hairstyles[10] and are dressed in luxurious finery, and the folds of their flowing robes are highly detailed.

The musician on one side of the front plate is playing what is thought to be the oldest extant visual representation of a harp.

[8] The figures resemble the form of the evangelists in the earlier Soiscél Molaisse, although, according to art historian Patrick Wallace, those on the Breac Maodhóg are "invested with a deeper humanity, character and humour.

The wool-clad, tuniced, and cloaked, bearded and long-haired figures seem to almost invite the viewer back to the early twelfth century.