The "kil" prefix, from the Irish "cill", typically points to an early ecclesiastical site, often a small church, a burial ground, or both, and the name alone is enough to suggest that this place was once considered significant enough to be set apart for sacred use. Beyond that, the record is quiet.

The detail available for this particular site is, for the moment, sparse. It appears in the archaeological record as a named and located monument, but the fuller documentation that might explain its character, its age, or its current condition has not yet been made publicly available. Clare is a county with an exceptionally dense archaeology, from the limestone pavements of the Burren with their early medieval churches and ringforts, to the quieter lowland townlands further south and east, where sites of similar antiquity survive in various states of visibility. Kilnamanorha fits into that broader landscape as a place that was evidently noticed and recorded, but whose story remains largely unread for now.