The field known as Parknakilla, which is an anglicisation of the Irish Páirc na Cille meaning "field of the church", carries within it the memory of an ancient ecclesiastical site, even though nothing of that site is now visible above ground. The landscape itself is the only legible evidence that something sacred once stood here.

The location was recorded by O'Donoghue in 1986, who noted the placename and identified the field on the west side of the area as marking the church's former position. By that point the ground had already been extensively quarried, removing whatever structural remains might once have indicated the building's outline, footprint, or character. Then in 1999, quarrying activity exposed something unexpected in the quarry face: a souterrain, which is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber typically associated with early medieval settlement, often used for storage or refuge. The souterrain's appearance at the quarry edge suggests that more archaeology may survive beneath the disturbed ground, though the extent and condition of any such remains is unknown. What was likely a significant early Christian site has been reduced, at least on the surface, to a field name and a glimpse of underground stonework revealed by the same industrial process that erased everything else.