They have been gathered, set in concrete, and put on modest display, orphaned from the architectural features they once formed. Most are thought to have come from the chancel arch and the west doorway of the church, neither of which survives in any recognisable form. Two fragments of quern stones, the hand-operated grinding stones used for processing grain, sit among them, suggesting the plinth has become a holding place for anything worked or shaped that turned up without an obvious home.

The fragments are all that physically remain of architectural details that would have given the church much of its character. A chancel arch is the opening between the nave where the congregation gathered and the chancel where the altar stood, often the most elaborately carved feature of a medieval Irish church. That no trace of it survives in its original position, yet pieces of it clearly do survive, points to a building that was substantially altered or dismantled at some point, with carved stonework salvaged rather than lost entirely. Alongside the fragments on the plinth, there is a further curiosity: a possible stoup, a small basin typically set into a wall near a church entrance and used to hold holy water, was found somewhere in the vicinity of the church. It was recorded in sketch form by the Office of Public Works, described as an irregular-shaped stone block with a semi-circular hollow cut into one face, the straight edge of that hollow aligned with the straight edge of the block so that it would sit flush against a wall. The stone itself has since disappeared, and its current whereabouts are unknown.