There is a place in County Kildare called Churchland, and somewhere within it, according to an eighteenth-century map, there was once a church. That church has since vanished so completely that no physical trace of it was found when the site was examined, and the Ordnance Survey, which mapped Ireland with considerable thoroughness from the 1830s onwards, never recorded it at all.

The sole evidence for the building's existence comes from Taylor's 1783 Map of County Kildare, which marks a church in the area. By the time the Ordnance Survey produced its first edition six-inch map in 1838, the church was gone from the cartographic record entirely, replaced only by a graveyard. That graveyard, which survives, is the last legible sign that something religious once stood here. Graveyards in Ireland frequently outlast the churches they served, sometimes by centuries, the burials continuing long after the building has collapsed, been robbed for stone, or simply dissolved back into the ground. In this case, even the graveyard yields nothing: no foundation lines, no earthworks, no scatter of dressed stone that might hint at what once stood above it.