On a slight rise in otherwise flat ground, the site holds no walls, no foundations, no masonry of any kind above the surface. It is, in the most literal sense, an absence.

What little is known about this church suggests it dates from the Penal Times, the period roughly spanning the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when Catholic worship was severely restricted under a series of laws imposed on Ireland. During this era, Mass was frequently celebrated at informal outdoor sites or in simple, unobtrusive structures that left little permanent mark on the landscape. This would explain both the church's probable modesty and its near-total disappearance. Significantly, it does not appear on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, surveyed in 1840 to 1841, suggesting that by then even local mapmakers found nothing worth recording. By the second edition of 1907, however, it had acquired the designation "church (site of)", an acknowledgement of memory if not of physical evidence. The historian Power, writing in 1908, is the source for its Penal Times association. About 120 metres to the south-west lies a holy well, a type of site with deep roots in Irish devotional practice, often predating Christianity and frequently associated with local patterns of worship that persisted through periods of official suppression.