 As well as commemorating Coen, this monument also commemorates James Crossan (1932-1958), a Sinn Féin activist who was killed by the RUC near the same spot in August 1958, during the Border Campaign.Crossan was a native of Aughavas, a hamlet south-west of Carrigallen in South Leitrim.In 1947, upon his father's death, he and his family had moved to Cloneary,
a townland near Bawnboy in West Cavan, where he spent the rest of his life.