The Ordnance Survey six-inch and twenty-five-inch maps record the spot as "Church (site of)", which is perhaps the cartographic equivalent of a polite acknowledgement that very little survives.

The remains sit within a stone bank running roughly north to south, extending some seventeen metres to the south-east of a nearby monument known as Kilnamarve. The block of masonry, measuring 0.8 metres long, 0.7 metres high, and 0.7 metres thick, has shifted from its original position; a further section of wall, just a metre long and 0.35 metres high, protrudes from the upper part of the same bank. Whether these fragments belong to a single structure or represent the compacted debris of something larger is not entirely clear, but the association with Kilnamarve suggests this corner of the island was once a focus of early ecclesiastical activity. Scattery was famously home to a monastic settlement associated with Saint Senan, and the island carries several early Christian remains, making even modest traces of masonry worth pausing over. The site is a national monument in state care, protected under a preservation order dating to 1971.

The fragmentary nature of the remains is itself part of what makes the place worth considering. Islands like Scattery were contested and reused across centuries, their stones borrowed and redistributed. What the bank and its displaced block record is not so much a building as the long aftermath of one.