The Ulster Annals state that the friary was founded in 1478. Cyra or Cera, was abbess and the anniversary of that saint is celebrated on the 16th of October but all traces of such an institution have long since disappeared. It is said that a nunnery existed on this spot at a very early date, of which St. The friary, as well as the church which adjoins it, are worthy the attention of the antiquarian and the artist: an avenue of venerable ash and elm trees conducts the visitor to the church, and prepares the mind for the solemn impressions that the gloomy appearance of the ruins are calculated to inspire. The numerous remains of large oaks still found in the neighbourhood show that the greater part of this vale, and the lofty uplands by which it is surrounded, were in more ancient times covered by a vast wood. The abbey occupies a retired and picturesque situation on the margin of the Bride, a small river which takes its rise in the neighbourhood of Kilmurry, and for several miles winds through a long valley, in the midst of which was formerly the dreary morass, known as the Bog of Kilcrea rendered almost impervious to the traveller by the matted underwood, and other rank vegetable productions, with which it was overgrown. About nine miles from Cork, a little to the left of the high-road, stand the ruins of the Abbey and Castle of Kilcrea. Volume I, Chapter III-6 | Start of chapterįrom Macroom I proceeded by the Cork road along the right bank of the Lee-here a sweet and sylvan stream.
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