Hordys

I have waited till now in hopes of seeing an answer from some more competent pen than my own to the Query as to the meaning of the word "*hordys*," by your correspondent "J.G.;" but having been disappointed, I venture a suggestion which occurred to me immediately on reading it, viz. that "*hordys*" might be some possible or impossible derivation from *hordeum*, and applied "irreverently" to the consecrated host, as though it were no better than a common barley-cake. Whether in those early days and in Ireland, the host was really made of barley, and whether "hordys" was a name given to some kin…