A stoup is a small basin, typically set near a church entrance, that held holy water for worshippers to bless themselves upon entering. Finding one fractured and wedged into rebuilt masonry rather than in its original position is a small, quiet reminder of how old ecclesiastical sites tend to accumulate their own history of loss, salvage, and improvisation.

A survey commissioned by Kerry County Council and carried out in 2008 found at least twenty-six architectural fragments at the site, displaced from their original positions. Twenty-four of these were noted lying loose on, or partially inserted into, the partially rebuilt west gable of the medieval church. All are dressed structural masonry cut from local red sandstone, the kind of warm, granular stone that is characteristic of the region. Some of the pieces are substantial enough to resist easy removal, while others are small and vulnerable. Among the fragments are sections that once formed the splayed ingoings of a window embrasure, the angled internal reveals that widen a narrow wall opening to let in more light, as well as at least one complete sill stone. The collection amounts to a kind of unintentional archive of the church's original fabric, scattered and reused rather than preserved in any formal sense.

The site repays slow looking. The sandstone fragments pressed into the gable wall are not always immediately obvious as architectural pieces; their dressed surfaces and precise angles give them away on closer inspection, distinct from the rougher rubble surrounding them. The broken stoup at the southwest angle is easy to miss if you are not specifically looking for it, set low and partially obscured within the reduced stonework of the corner.