What marks it out is purely a matter of local memory: it is known as the "keel field", and with that name comes a tradition that a church once stood here. The word "keel" derives from the Irish "cill", meaning a small early church or monastic cell, a term that appears frequently in Irish placenames and often signals a site of early Christian activity that has long since vanished above ground.

The name Kilcolman itself follows the same pattern, combining "cill" with a personal name, most likely that of a saint called Colman. There were numerous saints by that name in early Irish Christianity, and many townlands across the country preserve a dedication to one or another of them. What survives at this particular site is not stone or earthwork but simply the oral tradition passed down locally, a habit of naming a field in a way that keeps alive the memory of what was once there. The ground is level, the field is in pasture, and there is nothing dramatic to see.