What remains of this structure amounts to the foundation courses of the east wall, measuring 4.3 metres in length, and a short stretch of the north wall's eastern end, neither rising much above a metre in height. To the casual eye it might read as a field boundary or a collapsed enclosure, but locally it has always been understood as something more deliberate.

The ruins are known in the area as St. Fachtna's Shrine, a name recorded by Webster as far back as 1932. St. Fachtna, also known as Fachanan, is the patron saint of the Diocese of Ross, traditionally associated with the early medieval monastery at Rosscarbery not far away, which gives the dedication here a certain regional coherence. The survival of a place-name and a folk identity attached to a site this reduced is itself telling. When stone has been robbed, walls have tumbled, and a building has been reduced to its lowest courses, what often persists longest is the name, kept alive through local memory and burial practice. The graveyard that surrounds these remains continued in use well after the structure itself ceased to function as a church, which is a pattern common across rural Ireland wherever early ecclesiastical sites were absorbed into later parish life.