What most likely occupied this spot was a medieval parish church, and even that has now subsided into an ill-defined, grassed-over mound within a rectangular graveyard sitting on the townland boundary. The gap between the name a place accumulates over centuries and what archaeology can actually confirm is a recurring feature of the Irish landscape, and this site is a quiet example of it.

When Neary recorded the site in 1914, he knew it as Ardcloon Church and found considerably more to describe than survives today. At that point, the west gable still stood, along with small portions of the side walls. He noted two single-light windows, one at the west end of the south wall and one in the west gable itself, the latter a splayed window roughly 0.9 metres high with what he called a "rudely sculptured stone" above it. He also observed inlet holes for joists on the inner face of the gable, which suggests the building once had a loft at its western end, a detail that gives some sense of the structure's interior life before it fell away entirely. The graveyard surrounding the mound contains a number of cross-slabs, early medieval carved stones that were typically placed over graves, and a cross head is also associated with the site, fragments that outlasted the walls they once accompanied.