Against the internal wall-face of the enclosure, low roughly circular mounds of rubble hint at the former presence of clochans, the dry-stone beehive huts that early Irish monks used as individual cells for sleeping, prayer, and solitary work. These corbelled stone structures, built without mortar and roofed by courses of overlapping stone that converge at a single point, were once a distinctive feature of Atlantic-fringe monasteries, and their round footprints can persist in the landscape long after the walls themselves have collapsed inward.

The evidence here is quietly suggestive rather than conclusive. Scally, writing in 2014, noted that the outlines of at least three such mounds were visible against the enclosure wall, a reading supported by accounts from visitors to the island who independently recalled seeing at least three clochans in the same area. That convergence of physical trace and living memory gives the identification some weight, even if little stands above ground level today. The site sits within a broader cluster of early Christian remains on High Island, and the collapsed rubble of these cells forms part of a monastic landscape that has been slowly returning to the terrain around it for centuries.