The spot is unremarkable to look at now; no walls, no foundations, no stone courses poking through the grass. Yet the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map shows a cruciform chapel, a cross-shaped church plan common in post-medieval Catholic building in Ireland, positioned just to the south of the graveyard boundary. Locals called it Kilmurry Chapel. Today, the ground gives nothing away.

What happened to it is recorded, briefly and matter-of-factly, in the Ordnance Survey Field Name Books of 1840. The chapel was, in the words of the surveyors, "thrown down and removed to the S. corner of Ballyvorneen, at the parish boundary of Ballybrood, where it was rebuilt." The building was not simply demolished; it was dismantled and reconstructed at a new location, on the boundary between two parishes. This kind of physical relocation was not unheard of in early nineteenth-century Ireland, when Catholic communities were consolidating worship under the relatively new freedoms following Catholic Emancipation, but it remains an unusual fate for a named chapel with its own local identity. The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, writing in 1904 to 1905, noted a further complication: that a modern Catholic church had been built in 1820 on the old site, which would place the construction before the removal recorded in 1840, leaving the precise sequence of events a little tangled.

There is nothing to see at the original site in Castle-Erkin South, which is part of the appeal for a certain kind of visitor. The interest lies in reading the landscape against the documentary record, knowing that the six-inch map captures a building in existence, and that within a few years of that survey being made, it had been taken apart stone by stone. The graveyard itself remains, as graveyards tend to, and its southern edge is roughly where the chapel once stood. Anyone curious enough to seek it out should bring the 1838 OS map as a guide; the contrast between what the cartographers recorded and what survives above ground is, in this case, the entire point.