Monuments named for friars tend to mark places of memory rather than formal ecclesiastical architecture: a grave, a preaching stone, a site associated with a particular religious figure, often from the period when Catholic clergy moved through the countryside quietly and at some risk. The name Knocknageeha itself, likely derived from the Irish for something in the region of "hill of the wind" or a related toponym, adds a bleak, exposed quality to whatever stands or once stood there.