The name itself carries a clue to the site's origins: the kil prefix, from the Irish cill, denotes an early ecclesiastical enclosure, often marking a place of worship that predates the Norman period by centuries. Sites with this prefix are scattered across the Irish landscape, many of them associated with obscure local saints whose names survived in placenames long after any written record of their lives was lost. Kilsheshnan is one of these; a place whose name gestures toward a whole biography that has yet to be recovered.

Beyond the placename, documented detail about this particular site remains elusive. What can be said with reasonable confidence is that early Irish church sites of this type were typically modest in scale, often consisting of a small stone oratory or nave within a roughly circular enclosure, the boundary of which sometimes survives as a raised earthwork or a field boundary that has quietly outlasted its original purpose. Whether any such features remain visible at Graffy is, for now, a matter for those willing to go and look.