There is no visible trace on the surface, and even those who have tried to pin down its exact position have come away without certainty.

The church is known in local tradition as Shankill, a place-name derived from the Irish "sean cill", meaning old church, a term that recurs across Ireland wherever early ecclesiastical sites have slipped from active use into folklore. The site is said to have sat in a field beside the Ash Big motte, a motte being an earthen mound raised as the foundation for a Norman timber castle, which still survives nearby. The graveyard apparently extended towards the boundary with the townland of Carrickmullan, and it was along this boundary that bones were found, the only physical evidence that anything was ever there. Whether the church pre-dates the Norman motte beside it, or was in some way connected to the same period of activity, the notes do not say. What remains is a tradition, a name, a handful of bones, and a field that keeps its secrets.