It is the kind of structure that could be walked past without a second glance, were it not for what it carries: two plaques on its north-eastern face, both commemorating a man named Patrk Flaherty, and dated 1830. The cross that once surmounted the pier has since fallen, though the letters IHS, a Christogram derived from the Greek name for Jesus and long used in Catholic devotional carving, remain legible on it.

What stands here is a leacht cuimhne, a commemorative monument, a form of wayside or graveside marker with deep roots in Irish religious practice. These structures, sometimes little more than a cairn or a simple upright stone, were used to mark a place of prayer or remembrance, often associated with a named individual. This particular example is unusually well-formed, a neatly built rectangular block roughly a metre wide and just under a metre deep, set close to the early ecclesiastical enclosure at Cill Éinne. The site takes its name from Saint Éinne, also known as Enda, who founded a monastery on Inis Mór in the early Christian period, making the area one of the oldest centres of monastic life in Ireland. That a nineteenth-century memorial should stand within this landscape, bearing the name of a local Flaherty, places it in a long continuum of devotional use on the same ground.