He draws his name from an iron cross devoted to Saint Roch who was placed at his top at the beginning of the Middle Ages. Testimony of the Rochias abbot: “Sunday which followed the festival of the Saint Roch, the populations of Saint Nectary and Sapchat...

The Cornadore mount, which carries Saint Nectary and whose name means “tank of water”, was inhabited as of the Neolithic time. A granite dolmen was set up there. Prosper Mérimée, inspector of the historic buildings, describes it in 1837 in his notes....