School: Cloughjordan (No. 1) (roll number 3348)
- Location:
- Cloghjordan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Miss F.H. Thomson
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0533, Page 003
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- The Harrow - Pin Cross.About three or four miles out of Cloughjordan there is a cross known as Crowl cross which was called the Harrow Pin Cross in the eighteenth century.A woman called Mrs Donoghue lived in a small cottage not far from the cross. She had a son who one night went to the Crowl Public House. While there a fight was started and this man was killed. There was a Guard's Barrack about a quarter of a mile along the road. Some of the Guards took the dead body and threw it in the ditch a short distance down the road. Mrs Donoghue came looking for her son. When she discovered what had happened she was so angry, she got three Harrow Pins and buried them at the cross and put her curse on the Public House and the cross.About four years ago some men were playing pitch and toss and uncovered one of the Harrow Pins and threw it in the ditch. That night the spirit of Mrs Donoghue visited Jim Garrett - (Hilton, Cloughjordan) - one of the men that dug it up - and gave(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Malvina Mooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corrowle, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Joe Hacket
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ardcrony, Co. Tipperary
