Less remarked upon is a modest structure known as the Monks' Graveyard, which turns out, on closer inspection, to be something more layered than its name suggests. It is formed from two conjoined leachta, a leacht being a low, roughly rectangular cairn of dry-laid stone used in early Irish monasticism, typically associated with commemoration, burial, or prayer at a significant spot.

For a long time the Monks' Graveyard was understood and presented as a single feature. Excavation work carried out in 2001 changed that picture. The work involved carefully removing nineteenth-century and later drystone revetment, the kind of consolidation and surface repair that accumulated over generations of visits and maintenance. Once that later material was stripped back, it became clear that what appeared to be one structure was in fact two leachta placed together. The feature described here is the southernmost of the pair. The excavation findings were published by Bourke in 2003, and they quietly reframed a place that had long been treated as straightforwardly understood.