It is not a church monument, not a grave marker in any conventional sense, but a leacht cuimhne, a type of commemorative structure rooted in Irish tradition, somewhere between a wayside memorial and a standing monument, built to keep particular names in local memory.

The pier itself is carefully constructed, mortared and square, measuring 1.2 metres on each side. Three plaques are set into its faces: one on the north-west side, two on the south-east. Together they record Rodger Connelly, his wife Anne Connell, and her son Michl, with dates spanning from 1853 to 1872. That nearly twenty-year range across the three inscriptions suggests the monument was added to over time, each death prompting a new plaque rather than a new structure. The family names, slightly variant in spelling between husband and wife, reflect the fluid orthography common in nineteenth-century Ireland, when names were often written phonetically or anglicised inconsistently from one document to the next. The monument was documented by Tim Robinson, whose meticulous mapping of Connemara and the Aran Islands in the late twentieth century brought many such overlooked structures into the written record.