The area was known locally as Moher na Teampaill, an Irish phrase pointing to the former presence of a church or ecclesiastical enclosure, and the name itself was for a long time the principal reason to suspect that something older lay underfoot.

The sole documented reference to the site comes from Spellissy, writing in 1983, who recorded both the placename and the local belief that this had been an early church site. By that point, the ground had already been cleared of whatever physical remains it once held, to make way first for a caravan park and later, it seems, for a car park. The site sits at the south-western end of a large and densely laid-out field system running from Doolin to Ballyryan, a landscape feature suggesting long and layered human activity in the area. Without excavation or earlier documentation, the ecclesiastical connection remains a possibility rather than a confirmed fact, classified formally as a potential site supported by documentary evidence alone.

What makes the case quietly melancholy is how thoroughly the process of erasure has proceeded. The physical fabric went with the clearance for the caravan park; the placename, the one thread connecting the present landscape to a possible early medieval past, is no longer attached to anything a visitor could stand beside or examine. Only the field system to the east, stretching away from this southwestern corner, gives any sense of the older human geography that once surrounded a site now occupied by parked cars.