It holds the status of a recorded monument, meaning it has been noted, mapped, and assigned a place in the national inventory, yet the details that would normally accompany such a designation remain, for now, unwritten in any publicly accessible form.

Kildeema itself is a townland whose name derives from the Irish, most likely from "Cill Díoma", suggesting the cell or church of a figure called Díoma, a pattern common across Clare and the wider west of Ireland where early Christian hermits and minor saints gave their names to the small enclosures they founded. Burial grounds associated with such sites often predate the parish system entirely, continuing in use across centuries and sometimes into living memory as places for the interment of unbaptised infants, known in Irish tradition as cilliní. Whether Kildeema's ground fits that particular history is not something the surviving record makes clear.