The place-name itself offers a small clue: Kilmurry derives from the Irish Cill Muire, meaning the church of Mary, a dedication found scattered across Ireland wherever early Christian communities settled and named their surroundings after the Virgin. The pattern is common enough, but each such site carries its own local history, and this one has yet to be fully examined in any accessible form.

Beyond the place-name, the documentary record for this particular chapel remains thin. It is listed as a monument, which means it has been identified and assigned protected status, but the details of its age, its architectural remains if any survive, and its history of use have not been made available. Chapel sites of this kind in Kilkenny can range from early medieval foundations, sometimes no more than a low grass-covered outline in a field, to later medieval structures associated with parish organisation. Without further detail, it is not possible to say which this is, or what a visitor standing at the spot would actually see.