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'''Cyra''' (also '''Chera''', '''Crea''', and '''Cere filia Duibhrea''') was an early [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbess]].  Her [[calendar of saints|feast day]] is 16 October.

The virgin [[saint]] was abbess of the 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]].

==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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