The stones were not placed there as decoration. They were simply built in, absorbed into the newer structure as the wall went up, and there they remain.

The detail was recorded by a researcher named Robertson in 1894, who noted that the Roman Catholic church at Grange incorporated stonework from the earlier medieval building into its road-facing gable. The stoup, a small basin carved to hold holy water at a church entrance, and the partial doorway beside it, are the surviving traces of that older place of worship. This kind of recycling of dressed stone was entirely common in rural Irish church-building; cut stone was expensive and slow to produce, and usable material from a ruined predecessor was too practical to leave lying in a field. What makes this instance quietly notable is that the fragments remained identifiable and were recognised for what they were, rather than disappearing entirely into the fabric of the wall.