Changeling in Co. Clare

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A very old woman, Kate (Geerin) Molony, a henwife at Maryfort, near Tulla, whom I faintly remember in 1869, was many years before anxious about her little daughter’s failing health, and went to a ‘wise woman,’ who assured her that the child was ‘changed’. She spoke of this on her return, and unfortunately the patient was old enough to understand the fearful decision. The poor child turned over on the bed with a groan, and was a little later found to be dead. Westropp ‘Clare’ 198-199

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