On the northern shore of the Clonakilty estuary, on top of a low cliff, there once stood a graveyard containing the ruins of an early church. What makes this site unusual is not any surviving feature, but the manner of its disappearance: the entire site appears to have been removed by Cork County Council during road widening works, leaving nothing of what had stood there.

The graveyard and its ruined church were probably the remnants of an early ecclesiastical site, the kind of small, locally rooted religious foundation that appeared across Ireland in the early medieval period, often associated with a founding saint or monastic community and serving the surrounding landscape for centuries. Such sites frequently survived as graveyards long after any formal religious function had ceased, the burial ground outlasting the institution that created it. This one did not. The reference to the site in Hurley's 1980 work suggests it was still being noted by researchers within living memory, which makes its subsequent obliteration during road improvements feel particularly abrupt.}

There is, practically speaking, nothing to visit. The cliff edge along the Clonakilty estuary remains, and the road that replaced the site is presumably still in use, but the archaeological record stands as a placeholder for something that the landscape itself no longer acknowledges.