Most people would pass them without a second glance. But the ground between them is said to hold the remains of a priest who made it almost to safety, and almost was not enough.

According to local tradition, the man had been at Toombeola Friary on the opposite shore of the bay when soldiers attacked. He took to the water and swam across, only to be caught and killed before he could clear the shoreline. The two set boulders mark his grave. The place carries the Irish name Corr na mBráithre, meaning something close to "the point of the friars" or "the brothers' promontory", a name that quietly preserves the memory of the event in the landscape itself. Toombeola Friary, the building he fled from, lies directly across the water. The geography of the story is compact and legible: you can stand at the grave and look across to the ruin he left behind. The friary was a Franciscan house, and attacks on such establishments were a recurring feature of the Tudor and Cromwellian periods in Connacht, when religious communities faced sustained suppression. No specific date is attached to the tradition, and the name of the priest is not recorded.

The site sits to the south of a road close to the seashore, in the townland of Doire Fhada Thiar in west Galway. The information about the place name was provided by Tim Robinson, the cartographer and writer whose meticulous mapping of Connemara and the Aran Islands documented a great deal of local lore that might otherwise have gone unrecorded. The site itself had not been formally visited or assessed at the time it was first catalogued, which means the boulders may be exactly as described, or may have shifted, or may be harder to locate than the bare description suggests.