Roadside Cross 4

Stone the Crows!::12:
The name Crows an Wra (Krows an Wragh) is generally regarded as meaning in Cornish, The Witch's Cross. Very broad Cornish pals of mine in my youth, at least, used to pronounce it as Crouze an Ray (as in Eng. 'crowds' without the D, and 'ray' of sun) but in the Cornish language before corruption by English, it would be more like Crooze an Wrahh.

There is a tradition that a Harry the Hermit lived on nearby Chapel Carn Brea in the chapel that once stood on the great barrow topping the hill which rises above the hamlet. Harry was disliked by the Dean of St Buryan. He spoke both Cornish and English and was accused of being a sorceror and was blamed for spoiling the crops of those who crossed him. He would sit on the brink of the huge cliff at Tol-Pedn without fearand was said to have fashioned a ship from a sheep's shoulder blade and to have sailed it from the Devil's Funnel cave there on Gwennap Head. In this way he is immortalised by the old cross and the hamlet at Crows an Wra.