' That is a sobering baseline. Today, the situation is only marginally better: a single east gable, roughly 4.4 metres across internally, still stands in the north-east corner of the graveyard, accompanied by short stubs of the north and south walls. A featureless opening sits at the centre of the gable, probably where a window once was, though no tracery or dressing survives to confirm it. In recent years, someone has re-pointed the stonework with concrete and added a low rubble wall extending a few metres outward from the east and north faces, which gives the impression of tidying without quite resolving anything. The church, for all the intervention, remains stubbornly illegible.

The place name, recorded variously as Lemchaell in 1201, Laukyll in 1274, and Loughill by 1615, derives from the Irish Leamh choill, meaning elm wood, though the antiquarian Thomas Westropp noted a secondary possibility: marshmallow place. The settlement had a complicated medieval history. In 1280, a Roger Waspayl granted the manor of Lochkyl, among others, to a John Maltravers. By 1302, the church had been destroyed in war, which means the structure visible today is almost certainly a later rebuild, likely dating to the fifteenth or sixteenth century. When the Ordnance Survey Letters recorded the ruins in 1840, they noted the choir measured roughly 2.38 metres west to east and 2.94 metres north to south, the nave was about 4.57 metres wide, and the surviving fragment of south wall stood 2.43 metres high and 0.91 metres thick, built of large stones laid in lime and sand mortar. Even then, the chancel arch was entirely gone.

The ruins sit within the graveyard, still in use, and the east gable is the obvious focal point. Worth noting is a holy well dedicated to St Colmog, located approximately 100 yards to the north of the church. The well was venerated, as the 1840 account puts it, for the cure of sore eyes, and Westropp was still recording it under the name St Colman's Well in 1904. Whether active devotion continues is harder to say, but the well is recorded separately as a monument in its own right. The site appears on the Down Survey Barony map of Connello, which gives some indication of how long it has been considered a landmark worth marking, even in a ruined state.