School: Taplach (roll number 5114)
- Location:
- Taplagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Dubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0931, Page 387
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- (continued from previous page)child would be once again their own.
The parents decided to take the advice of the wise old woman. They repaired on the following night to the fort. The music and pony-riding continued as on the previous night, and when the father got a favourable opportunity, he threw the pot-hooks round his child's neck - and had his son secure in his arms in a moment.
When the parents and their child reached home, the mother went to the cradle, where the changeling had been - and found not the changeling in the cradle, but a block of wood. the changeling had disappeared, and the block of wood remained as silent testimony, that the changeling had been there.Nancy Canfield is now dead, but she believed firmly in the truth of this tale. Nancy is dead about ten years ago.
- Informant
- Miss B. Kirke
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
