What is recorded here

Death on Glassmucky Mountain still wears the shape of a cross. A granite boulder stands beside the road with expanded arms carved into its face, marking the place where a chimney sweep may have frozen after a snowstorm erased the path home. The cross does not decorate the mountain; it answers the cruelty of that lost night by naming the victim and refusing to let the white silence take him without witness.

Situated to the E of the R115 and a small gravel pit on Glassmucky Mountain. A roadside granite boulder set on its long axis (dims. L 1.10m, Wth 0.62m, N-S, H 0.42m) with a cross inscribed on its exposed face. This cross has expanded terminals (H 0.40m, Wth 0.35m, Healy 1961, 125, Price 1959, 165). There is a local tradition that it marks the spot where the body of a chimney sweep was found who had been caught in a snowstorm and had frozen to death. It is known as 'Sweep's Cross' (Swords, K. ed.2009, 109). Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Uploaded on: 28 July 2018

is likely to date from the early medieval period, associated with Christian symbolism and possibly used as a waymarker or memorial. Such crosses often held spiritual significance and may be linked to local pilgrimage routes or territorial markers.

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