The place is Knocktemple, and the name itself, derived from the Irish "Cnoc a theampaill" meaning the hill of the church, is almost the only solid evidence that anything religious ever stood there.

The church in question was known as Cillin Chronain, Saint Cronan's little church, a dedication that places it within the early Irish ecclesiastical tradition of small, locally venerated foundations associated with named saints. A cillin, in Irish usage, typically refers to a small church or burial ground, often of early medieval origin. By 1615, according to a record cited by Brady in 1863, the church at Knocktemple was already in ruins, suggesting it had fallen out of use well before that point. What Bowman recorded in 1934 were grass-covered mounds inside a nearby ringfort, a type of enclosed farmstead common in early medieval Ireland, which he interpreted as the structural remains of the church. Those mounds are no longer visible. The site has, in effect, completed its disappearance, leaving only the parish name as a kind of fossilised memory of a foundation old enough to have given the land its identity.