In Roger Stalley's fine book "The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland",, Yale
University Press, 1987....p.197. There is a photo of the "famous owl which
flutters against the north-west crossing pier" at Holycross Abbey, Tipperary.
The text below states "the choice of an owl against a NORTHERN pier was not
entirely arbitrary. Associated with the hours of darkness the owl signified
blindness in matters of faith and hatred of the light of truth". This
reference goes to pp. 133-4 in a book entitled "Bestiary", by White, 1960.
Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts
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