Sitting on a slight natural rise along a north-east-facing slope, the remains lie so low that only by walking directly onto the site does the ground reveal what it holds. That quality of concealment, unintentional but complete, gives the place an oddly suspended quality, as though it opted out of being found.

The site was recorded by Power in 1908 as the location of an early church, the kind of small, unadorned oratory that characterises the earliest phases of Irish Christian settlement, often established in marginal or lightly wooded ground away from centres of population. The ecclesiastical remains sit alongside a graveyard and a standing stone, a pre-Christian upright that was frequently absorbed into the sacred geography of early medieval religious sites rather than removed. The combination of church, burial ground, and standing stone at a single location is a reasonably common feature of early Irish Christianity, reflecting how new religious communities often settled into landscapes already considered significant. The site holds a preservation order under the National Monuments Acts, which places it under legal protection.