Saint Cyra
Saint Cyra (also Chera, Crea, and Cere filia Duibhrea) was an early Irish abbess. Her feast day is 16 October.
The virgin saint was abbess of the famous monastery of Killchere ("Cyra's Church") in that part of Munster which was called Muscragia or Muskerry. The site is now occupied by the ruins of a later Franciscan Kilcrea Friary. Of her acts we know no particulars.
References
- Richard Challoner. Britannia Sancta: or, The Lives of the most Celebrated British, English, Scottish, and Irish Saints. Part II. London: Thomas Meighan, 1745.
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