[1] The name Kiltubrid derives from the Irish Cill Tiobraid meaning "church of the well".

The remaining ruins are located beside a holy well dedicated to Saint Patrick.

Folklore relates that the well was infilled when the church was demolished, but sprang up a short distance away.

On 5 December 1640, the Committee of Irish affairs of the Long Parliament upheld a petition against Frederick Hamilton from a native noble "Tirlagh Mac Raghnaill (Reynolds) of Kiltubrid parish",[2] which complained "hee had been prosecuted uniustlie for lands in the Countie of Leytrim in Ireland" by "Sir Fredericke Hambledon".

Evidence of human settlement at Lough Scur has been dated to the New Stone Age.