Long-lost stained glass ‘will heal old wounds’

A Limerick parish priest expressed hope yesterday that the recovery of a historic church window, missing for more than 45 years, would heal old wounds in his community.

Fr John Donworth,parish priest of Kildimo/Pallaskenry, travelled to Kilkenny on Tuesday to bid for a stained glass window which went up for auction at Fonsie Mealey’s auction rooms in Castlecomer.

Fr Donworth said: “A parishioner saw the stained glass window, measuring 40in by 13in, on the internet for sale and identified it as the same one that was in the previous parish church located at Old Kildimo. After the old church closed, that glass piece was never seen since. I was informed and immediately contacted the parish finance committee, and it was decided that we should buy the piece which was by the famous stained glass maker, Harry Clarke.”