A preservation order, issued under the National Monuments Acts, marks it out as a place of recognised significance, the sort of designation that tends to be attached to sites with a deeper story than their present appearance might suggest.

Kilcreevanty is one of those place names that points back through layers of early Irish ecclesiastical history. The name itself suggests an association with a founder saint or early monastic community, a pattern common across the west of Ireland where small graveyards persist on the sites of pre-Norman churches, often long after any standing structure has crumbled or been absorbed into later building work. These burial grounds frequently continued in use for centuries after the religious communities that established them had disappeared, leaving only the graveyard itself as evidence of the original settlement.