Co. Clare Changeling at Carnelly

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My second sister, whose delicacy, when an infant, excited remark, was, about 1842, taken out by a servant to be exposed on a shovel on the doorstep at Carnelly. The angry and hasty intervention of another servant saved the child, but the would-be ‘exposer’ was convinced of the propriety of her attempt ‘to get back the real child’ from the fairies. Westropp ‘Clare’ 198

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