Today there is nothing to see at ground level, and yet the place retains a designation, a precise location, and even approximate dimensions: roughly ten metres east to west and seven metres north to south. Its existence is known almost entirely because a cartographer recorded it, faintly, on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1839, marking it simply as "Abbey (site of)". That parenthetical phrase is doing considerable work; it signals that even by the time the surveyors arrived, the building itself had already vanished.

The site sits in the bottom of a small valley, with a castle site lying just twenty-five metres to the north-east. The proximity of an ecclesiastical site to a castle is not unusual in the Irish landscape, where medieval lords and religious foundations often occupied the same ground in close succession, or simultaneously. What little remained of the abbey was apparently still detectable underground as recently as around 1950, when drainage work in the area disturbed walls, and local knowledge of that encounter has persisted. Archaeological testing carried out in 2004 at a location roughly fifty metres to the south-west, however, produced no archaeological material, leaving the buried outline of the building itself unexamined and unconfirmed by excavation. The result is a site that exists in a kind of evidential limbo: documented, located, partially remembered, but not yet found.