Baring-Gould’s sources: Irish Martyrologies. S. Angus the Culdee on Jan. 5, in his Metrical Martyrology; but the Tamlacht and Cassel Martyrologies on both Jan. 5 and Oct 16. Authority: — A life in Colgan, of no great authority.] The holy virgin Kiara, Cyra, or Chier, was the daughter of one Duibhre, and of an illustrious family of Muskerry, in the modem county of Cork. She is said to have applied, with five other virgins, to S. Fintan Munnu, when residing at Ely O’Carrol, for a situation where to establish a nunnery, and he appointed her to take possession of Tech-telle, in West Meath, where he had himself resided. There she probably spent some years; but it is very doubtful whether she really received the place from S. Fintan Munnu. How long she lived at Ely O’ Carrol we do not know. Returning thence to her own country, she founded a nunnery, called, from her name, Killchree, now Kilcrea, a few miles south-west from the city of Cork, which she governed until her death in 680. In the account of the Saints of Erin, in Leabhar Breach, in the Royal Irish Academy, she is mentioned as one of the illustrious saints of the race of Conaire: — •• Nine persons of the race of Conaire, By learned persons called Three lights, three seniors, three virgins. Commemorated by the ancient sages, “ These are the three cailechs (nuns) Who freely gave their love to Christ, Ciara-scach, Gobinait, with devotion.