In Ireland if workmen making a roadway or building houses came across a Hawthorn Tree which was creating an obstacle, it would have been the brave man that would have attempted to remove it.

Many is the tale that has been told of the person who met a cruel fate by destroying the Hawthorn, although I know of one man who put a claim in against his firm when he had his leg fractured playing football a few days after the Hawthorn was removed, blaming it on the wee folk didn`t help him when confronted by a unbelieving Judge.

Up to a few years ago there was a Hawthorn still standing in the centre of a completed country road.