Known locally as the "keel field", the site sits on a steep south-facing slope and has, over time, been so thoroughly swallowed by scrub and overgrowth that it is now considered inaccessible. The local name offers a clue to what lies beneath the brambles: "keel" derives from the Irish "cill", meaning a small early church or monastic enclosure, often accompanied by a burial ground. Such sites were frequently informal, pre-Norman places of interment, sometimes attached to a hermitage or a modest early Christian foundation long since vanished from the landscape.

The burial ground at Munnane belongs to a pattern recognisable across rural Ireland, where early ecclesiastical sites were established in marginal or sheltered ground, their later abandonment leaving only a field name and, beneath the vegetation, whatever physical traces remain. Without excavation or clearance, it is impossible to say how much survives. The slope and the scrub have done their own kind of preserving work, keeping the site undisturbed while also rendering it effectively invisible. That a local name has persisted here at all is itself a form of memory, the landscape holding onto something the documentary record never bothered to write down.