What makes this site quietly interesting is precisely what it is not. For some time it was assumed to be something older, a continuation of a medieval sacred site, and that assumption turns out to be wrong in an instructive way.

The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, writing in 1904 to 1905, proposed that the Church of Ireland building at Moig East Glebe stood on the site of the medieval church of Kilcornan, a reasonable enough hypothesis given that later churches were frequently built over earlier ones. Medieval communities often maintained the same consecrated ground across centuries, and a Victorian church rising from an ancient foundation was a common enough pattern in rural Ireland. The problem, as the record compiled by Caimin O'Brien notes, is that there is no evidence to support Westropp's suggestion. Both the church and the surrounding graveyard appear to date only from the 19th century. The more probable location for the actual medieval church and graveyard of Kilcornan lies some 175 metres to the south-west, where a separate graveyard site has been recorded. That second site, catalogued as LI011-019, carries the older associations that the more visible church was long thought to hold.

The graveyard at Moig East Glebe is a rural site in County Limerick, and as with many such places access is best attempted on foot and with some awareness of local land boundaries. The more historically significant site to the south-west is worth seeking out if you are in the area, though there may be little visually dramatic to see. The value here is largely in the correction of a long-standing misattribution; the medieval Kilcornan, whatever physical traces survive, is not where Westropp placed it. Visitors with an interest in how historical assumptions accumulate and are quietly revised will find the two sites, taken together, a useful illustration of how Irish ecclesiastical landscapes are still being carefully re-read.