Rural parish churches of this kind rarely attract the attention of visitors passing through on their way to more conspicuous landmarks, yet they frequently hold the accumulated history of a locality in a way that grander buildings simply do not.

Unfortunately, the available record for this particular church is sparse, and detailed information on its date of construction, its patron, or any architectural features of note has not yet been documented in a form that can be usefully drawn upon here. What can be said is that Catholic church-building in rural Connacht accelerated significantly in the decades following Catholic Emancipation in 1829, and again in the latter half of the nineteenth century, as communities that had previously worshipped in modest structures or in the open air gained both the legal freedom and, gradually, the financial means to build more permanent places of worship. Many such churches in County Galway were simple single-nave buildings in a plain Gothic Revival style, constructed from local stone, and oriented to make the most of whatever flat ground a hillside townland could offer.