What makes it quietly unusual is not any single dramatic feature, but the way those layers have collapsed into each other: overgrown foundations, headstones weathered back towards illegibility, and scattered pieces of cut stone that are all that physically remain of a church built, used, and then deliberately taken apart within the span of a single lifetime.

In the north-west corner of the graveyard, the foundations of the ancient parish church of Templenacarriga survive as a low, overgrown line in the ground, the building having measured roughly thirteen metres east to west and eight metres north to south. The south wall has been removed entirely, and the interior is densely overgrown. The headstones visible in the wider enclosure date back to at least 1796, noted by the researcher Coleman in the early twentieth century. Alongside these medieval and post-medieval remains, a Church of Ireland church was constructed on the same site in 1846, a common enough pattern in the nineteenth century when established church buildings were raised on or near older sacred ground. That church was dismantled around 1905, leaving no standing trace. When Coleman visited, he recorded pieces of cut stone lying near the entrance, the dressed masonry of that Victorian building already reduced to loose fragments within a few years of its demolition.