Today, that ground holds no visible stonework, no ruin, no fragment of wall. Just rough pasture on the grounds of a house once called Abbey Ville, with a small north-south stream running about fifty metres to the east. The name Abbeybraney, recorded by Lewis in 1837 and by O'Flanagan nearly a century later, is the only firm trace of whatever religious presence once occupied this slope.

The most plausible explanation connects the site to Tintern Abbey, the Cistercian house founded on the Hook Peninsula in the thirteenth century. A grange was a farming estate attached to a monastery, typically worked to supply the mother house with food and income, and Grattan Flood, writing in 1915, believed that Tintern had one here at Kilbraney. The picture sharpens slightly at the Suppression of the monasteries in 1541, when records list the Grange of Kylemore among Tintern's possessions, comprising 120 acres. The townland of Kyle lies immediately to the east of the site, lending some geographic credibility to the identification, even if the name has shifted over the centuries. What the rectangular outline on those old maps actually represents is less certain. Researchers have found no reason to interpret it as a church, and no structural evidence survives above ground to settle the question either way. It may have been a barn, a storage building, or some other functional element of monastic agriculture rather than anything more overtly devotional.