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This abbey was founded in the year 1169 by Donald O'Brien, King of Thomond, and in the order of dates was the eleventh of the forty-two houses established in Ireland previous to the Reformation by the disciples of St. Bernard, the monks of the Reformed Order of Citeaux.
The Abbey of HolyCross, as one of the greater monasteries, was suppressed under the fiat of Henry VIII in 1536.
Eventually, HolyCross with its appurtenances was conferred by Elizabeth on Thomas, Earl of Ormonde.
4mi/6km south of Thurles, on the right bank of the Suir, is HolyCrossAbbey (13th-15th C; National Monument), a Cistercian house founded in the 12th C. The abbey possessed a fragment of the True Cross which made it a great place of pilgrimage.
In the north transept, partly preserved, is a wall painting (a feature rare in Ireland) depicting a stag hunting scene in shades of brown, red and green.
Between two chapel recesses in the south transept is a columned and arched structure, probably the shrine in which the relic of the True Cross was exhibited.
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