In County Fermanagh, beside the road between Florence Court and Blacklion, is a huge escarpment called the "Hanging Rock" and below it rests an enormous boulder some twenty feet long and fifteen feet high. It is covered in ivy and surrounded by trees. The official title for this lump is Cloghoge, meaning Large Stone. But the locals know it more affectionately as the Salter's Stone. I'm curious to know who the salter was?
The legend goes that this old man was on his way to market to sell his sack of salt when he was caught in a tremendous storm. He sheltered beneath these trees but suddenly this rock broke free, hundreds of feet above him, and crushed him to death. I've been told that on dark stormy nights he still roams the area.
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