Episode 8- Changeling- The death of Bridget Cleary- 1895

Send us Fan MailIn March of 1895, in a quiet corner of rural Tipperary, a young woman named Bridget Cleary vanished from the world of the living and stepped—at least in the minds of her neighbours—into something far stranger. Her death would become one of Ireland’s most haunting and contested stories, a collision of folklore, fear, and a society caught between old beliefs and a modernising world.This episode unravels the final days of Bridget Cleary, the so‑called “last witch burned in Ireland,” and asks what really happened in that small cottage near Ballyvadlea. It’s a story of superstition and control, of a community under pressure, and of a woman whose life—and death—still echoes through Irish history.