The Kilcormac Pieta is a statue
showing Our Lady with her dead son in her arms. It is made out of pure
solid oak. The statue was in the parish church of Ballyboy when Cromwell
came to Firceall .The people of Ballyboy hid the statue in some rubbish
and when Cromwell came he burnt the church down. Then he went on. The McRedmonds
took the Pieta to Derrinboy Bog. Meanwhile they were having masses in an
old rath near Ballyboy. There was priest who was parish priest of Kilcormac.
He was going to Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary. He saw the Pieta thinking it
was a present, so he took it with him. The people of Kilcormac came after
him with pitch forks, pikes, slash hooks and knives. They got it back,
and from then on it has been in our Church of the Nativity of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.
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