The older of two Catholic places of worship on the site was already in ruins by 1839, when it appeared on the first Ordnance Survey six-inch map marked only lightly, a T-shaped outline with dimensions of roughly 33 metres east to west and 20 metres north to south. Even that ghostly cartographic trace no longer corresponds to anything visible on the ground.

The ruined chapel sat at the northern end of a low north-south ridge, with a newer Catholic church built just to its east, suggesting a congregation that had outgrown or simply moved on from the older building while remaining on the same ground. What complicates the picture further is what happened to the graveyard itself. In 1971 it was cleared, and the headstones were gathered and placed along the northern wall. The effect was to erase the legible surface of the burial ground, leaving no visible fabric of either the church structure or the grave markers in their original positions. A cleared graveyard and a building reduced to a cartographic footnote make for a site where absence is more present than anything else.