Anybody interested in the the folklore of the area should try to get hold of two fascinating books; 'The Burning of Brigid Cleary', and 'The Cooper's Wife is Missing'; factual accounts of the killing of a local woman in the late 19th century, who, it was believed, had been 'taken by the fairies and replaced by a changeling'. The case is ifren (erroniously) referred to as 'The Clonmel Witch Trial'.
Jim Carroll