That, in itself, is what makes the place worth knowing about. The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1836 to 1837 marks a rectangular feature here, roughly fifteen to seventeen metres north to south and nine to ten metres east to west, labelled in gothic script as 'Church'. By the time the 1840 to 1841 edition was produced, the cartographers had quietly demoted it to 'Church (Site of)', a designation that acknowledges something once stood here while conceding that the evidence had already slipped beyond recovery.

The antiquarian John O'Donovan, working on the Ordnance Survey Letters in the nineteenth century, noted a ruined edifice at the location and recorded a local tradition that it had once been associated with a burial ground. He went further, proposing that the site might be identified with Creadran Cille, a place mentioned in the annals under the year 1257. According to those records, a battle took place 'in Ros Cede' between Godfrey O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, and Maurice Fitzgerald, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland. O'Donovan's identification was speculative, offered in the manner of a careful scholar rather than a confident assertion, but it connects this otherwise featureless ridge to one of the medieval conflicts between Gaelic lordships and the encroaching apparatus of Anglo-Norman governance. Today, no visible remains of either church or graveyard survive at the location, leaving the place to exist largely as a cartographic memory and an entry in the annals of what might have been.