The earlier of the two has almost entirely vanished beneath the grass, its southern wall surviving to little more than a metre in height on the inside, though on the outside it has no visible height at all; the continuous accumulation of burials over the generations has raised the surrounding ground until the stonework is effectively swallowed. What does remain suggests the church had a D-shaped apse at its eastern end, a rounded sanctuary projection of the kind associated with early medieval ecclesiastical architecture in Ireland, though the building itself dates to around 1690.

That earlier church had a complicated afterlife. It was described as thoroughly repaired in 1828, yet by 1837 a contemporary account called it a small dilapidated structure. The following year, in 1838, a replacement Church of Ireland parish church for Aghabulloge was erected a short distance to the north, and it was during that construction work that builders discovered an ogham stone built into the fabric of the older building. Ogham is an early medieval script, common in Munster, in which letters are represented by notched or scored lines along the edge of a stone, and finding one reused as building material was not unusual; it simply means the stone was old enough to have lost its original meaning before the 1690 church was raised around it. The later church has fared little better than its predecessor. Its eastern gable still stands to 5.5 metres, with a tall pointed window embrasure at its centre, but the timber window frame that once filled that opening was removed at some point and is now held at Carrignamuck Castle nearby. The two ruins sit within what appears to be an early ecclesiastical enclosure, suggesting the site has been in continuous religious use for considerably longer than any of the surviving stonework implies.