School: Clochar na Toirbhirte (roll number 969)
- Location:
- Loch Garman, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: An tSr. Bearnard
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0880, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)was to be placed on the heap of crosses - still to be seen at various places by the roadside -Brandy Cross, Tarahill etc - the other cross for the grave. Many writers have offered explanations of this peculiar custom. Mrs Margaret Stokes says she observed the same practice in Cong and in Normandy and Picardy in France. She traces it to a pagan superstition - afterwards Christianised by Saint Patrick. In the third volume of the "Past" J.H (the late Monsignor Hagan) offers a very original explanation. In 777 Charlemagne's army was routed by the Basques in the Pyrenees. In memory of the dead soldiers the Emperor erected a huge crucifix at the spot. And pilgrims to Saint James's Shrine at Compostella used kneel at the foot of this memorial and place a wooden cross there(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Rev. T. O' Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile an Phiarsaigh, Co. Loch Garman
