No masonry breaks the surface today, and the rectangular enclosure of roughly 80 metres by 50 metres gives no immediate indication that a parish church once stood here at all.

The church was the ancient parish church of Caherlag, and it was already in serious decline by the turn of the eighteenth century. A note recorded by Brady in 1863, drawing on sources from around 1700, described the building as constructed of stone and clay, with its walls half down. That description captures a structure already well on its way to disappearing. By 1902, the Ordnance Survey six-inch map still showed the north and east walls standing, or at least traceable. But when the antiquary Power visited and wrote about the site in 1918, he recorded those remains as almost completely gone. At some point between that survey and the present, whatever was left vanished from view entirely. The late eighteenth and nineteenth-century headstones clustered on the south side of the graveyard are, in a sense, the most legible layer of a much longer history of use on this hill, with the church that preceded them now leaving no visible trace whatsoever.