The name derives from the Irish, and graveyards bearing such townland names in County Kilkenny often mark early ecclesiastical sites, places where a church or oratory once stood before the stones were robbed out or the ground simply reclaimed by grass and memory. This one sits within that long tradition of Irish burial grounds where the religious structure has vanished but the community continued, for generations, to bring its dead.

The historical record for this particular site remains sparse in accessible form, and what survives about Kildrummy as a settled place is largely a matter of the landscape speaking for itself. Kilkenny's rural interior is dense with such locations, small enclosed graveyards on slightly elevated ground, sometimes surrounded by the trace of a cashel wall or the ghost of an earlier enclosure. Whether this site follows that pattern is, for now, difficult to confirm from available sources. What can be said is that the graveyard is recognised as a recorded monument, placing it within the broader archaeology of a county whose early Christian and medieval landscape has been unusually well preserved.