Three clochans, the small corbelled drystone shelters associated with early Christian monastic life and older still in origin, were folded into the enclosing wall of a garden rather than cleared away entirely. Four others from the same group were not so lucky, broken up to provide raw stone for that very wall. The site is known locally as Púicín na bhFothrach, and what survives is less a ruin in the conventional sense than a kind of archaeological palimpsest, where one act of construction cannibalised another.

R. A. S. Macalister noted the group in 1899, by which point the dismantling had already long since happened. Of the three survivors, the first sits within the north wall of the field: an oval structure built in the corbelled technique, where courses of flat stone are laid so that each projects slightly inward over the one below, eventually closing to a roof without mortar or timber. It retains a lintelled wall-cupboard in the interior, a small shelf-like recess formed by a horizontal stone slab, a detail that hints at domestic use. Its internal dimensions are modest, roughly 3.1 by 1.5 metres, and it stands 1.5 metres high. The second clochan occupies the north-east corner of the field, almost entirely buried under collapse and field clearance debris; Macalister described it as five-sided on plan, with a maximum internal dimension of 1.8 metres. The third has been reduced to what reads from the outside as a buttress against the east wall, standing 2.5 metres high, with no accessible interior remaining. The largest of the original seven was apparently still being used as a dwelling around 1847, during the years of the Famine, which lends the site a quality that goes beyond archaeological curiosity.