Holycross Abbey

Mainistir na Croise Naofa (Abbey of the Holy Cross) was a Cistercian monastery founded around 1169–1182 by Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond, on the banks of the River Suir near Thurles. The abbey became one of medieval Ireland's most significant pilgrimage sites after Queen Isabella of Angoulême, widow of King John of England, bestowed a purported fragment of the True Cross (the Holy Rood...