When the Ordnance Survey visited the site in 1840, their surveyors found no trace of any building whatsoever. The church dedicated to St Bridget had been so thoroughly erased that its former presence was already a matter of record rather than observation. What survives in its place is something stranger: a large stone pier built into the southern wall of the graveyard, into which a collection of architectural fragments and carved stones have been set, apparently gathered and preserved by someone with an eye for odd salvage.

Among the fragments embedded in this pier is a piece of an ogee-headed window with hollowed spandrels, a style of late medieval stonework characterised by its double-curved arch, the convex lower curve meeting a concave upper one, often found in ecclesiastical and high-status domestic buildings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This fragment is understood to have come from the church itself, making the pier a kind of accidental reliquary for the building it replaced. Alongside it are carved figures: a cat, a lion, and a human figure. Most of the stones are described as being of relatively recent date, which gives the pier an oddly layered quality, part medieval remnant, part later assemblage, all built into a wall bordering a graveyard where the founding structure no longer exists.

The site sits outside what was once the walled medieval town of Thurles, a detail that would have carried significance in earlier centuries, when being outside the walls defined a place's relationship to civic and ecclesiastical authority. The graveyard continues to occupy that marginal position, west of the railway line, quietly accumulating its fragments.