Its cross-shaped plan, with a long axis running northeast to southwest, is a form associated with later Catholic church building in rural Ireland, designed to accommodate growing congregations while maintaining a liturgical layout that places the altar at one end and the faithful in the nave and transepts. What makes this one quietly interesting is how thoroughly it has been reworked, to the point where its original character is difficult to read from the outside.

The building is lit by narrow pointed lights, a detail that gestures toward a Gothic sensibility common in nineteenth and early twentieth century Irish ecclesiastical architecture. The main entrance sits within a recent porch at the southeast end of the northeast wall of the nave, a practical addition that disrupts any clean symmetry the plan might once have had. A second door opens through the southeast wall of the southwest transept, suggesting the building had to manage multiple streams of congregation. At the northwest end of the chancel, a lean-to sacristy, a small utilitarian room where a priest would vest and store liturgical equipment, has been appended to the structure. The overall impression is of a building that has been added to and altered across successive generations, each intervention solving an immediate problem without much concern for the whole.