That detail, recorded by Ní Chadhla in 1994, is the kind of thing that gets lost in plain sight. The graveyard at Kilcorney continues in use on one side of the road while, on the other, a field of pasture holds the ghost of what was once, almost certainly, a much older and more significant enclosure.

What survives in that field is an arc of earthen bank running roughly northeast to southwest, curving across about 36 metres. Taken together with what lies beneath the graveyard on the western side of the road, it suggests an original circular enclosure somewhere between 50 and 60 metres in diameter. Circular enclosures of this kind, defined by a raised earthen bank rather than masonry, are characteristic of early ecclesiastical settlements in Ireland, where a religious community would demarcate its sacred space, its sanctuary, with a ringed boundary. The stone walls that currently surround the graveyard may well date only to the period of the road construction, replacing or overlying the earlier earthen form. The townland name, Kilcorney, lends weight to the interpretation: "kil" derives from the Irish "cill", meaning church or monastic cell, a prefix that consistently marks early Christian sites across the country. Faint traces of further earthworks have also been noted to the southeast, suggesting the extent of activity here may have been larger still.