Cleary, Bridget b. 1867 d. March 16, 1895 Folk Figure. Born the youngest child and only daughter of Patrick and Bridget Boland in County Tipperary, Ireland. She attended Convent School in Drangan before being apprenticed to a dressmaker. In August 1887, she married a cooper, Michael Cleary, after which she worked successfully as a dressmaker and egg seller. The couple remained childless and she was known as an unusually independent woman. After her mother died in 1894, Bridget developed a habit of visiting the so-called fairy forts in...[Read More] (Bio by: Iola) Drangan and Cloneen Parish Church, Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland Plot: outside the wall
b. 1867 d. March 16, 1895