It has been recorded as a monument of interest, which suggests it possesses some quality, whether of age, architecture, or historical association, that sets it apart from an ordinary working parish church. What exactly that quality is remains, at present, difficult to pin down with precision.

The townland name itself, Gardenblake, hints at an anglicisation of an older Irish place name, a common enough occurrence across Connacht where successive waves of mapping and administration quietly buried the original sound beneath a phonetic approximation. Catholic churches in rural Galway were frequently built or rebuilt during the nineteenth century, many of them modest structures thrown up in the decades following Catholic Emancipation in 1829, when the legal and financial constraints on Catholic worship were finally lifted and communities across Ireland began constructing permanent places of assembly in earnest. Whether this particular building belongs to that wave of post-Emancipation construction, or represents something older, is a question the available record does not yet answer.