Known as both Listemple and Killure Grave Yard, the site carries the prefix "Lis", from the Irish "lios", meaning an enclosure, often associated with a ringfort or a defined boundary of some antiquity. The second element, "temple", derives from the Irish "teampall", a church or place of worship. Together, they suggest a site where a religious enclosure once stood, possibly long before any surviving stonework marked the ground. The alternative name, Killure, echoes the Irish "cill", meaning a church or monastic cell, again pointing toward early ecclesiastical use. Two names, both pointing at the same origin, and yet the specifics of what stood here, and when, remain largely unrecorded in accessible sources.

What can be said is that places of this kind, a graveyard attached to or grown up around the site of an early church or enclosure, are not uncommon across the west of Ireland. They often mark the locations of pre-Norman foundations, sometimes no more than a small community gathered around a local holy figure, and they continued to serve as burial grounds long after any associated building had disappeared entirely. The name Killure Beg, the "beg" meaning small, distinguishes this townland from a larger or earlier settlement nearby, a common way of mapping the landscape in areas where one place-name spread across more ground than a single community could hold. The graveyard itself, positioned within this layered nomenclature, sits at the intersection of early Christian land use and the long habit of burying the dead where prayer had once been said.