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Standing on a hillside near the townland borders of Linford and Drains Bog at a pass leading to Cairncastle was once a cairn of stones known as the ‘Headless Cross’. The cross disappeared many years ago but when this name was attached to it there was presumably the remains of a cross erected there. Why a cross was erected there history does not record but it is suggested that it could possibly be where warriors had died defending the pass. Cairns were being built certainly as late as the 16th century to mark the scene of a battle as in the case of the Bruce invasion. In the late 19th or early 20th centuries the cairn of stones was removed and the name seems to have been transferred to a large basalt boulder standing 6 feet high situated nearby. It is suggested that a low, circular stone formation resembling a cashel, and which lies at the pass through which the main Deerpark / Cairncastle Road runs might be the remains of a cairn called ‘The Headless Cross.’
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