That combination, official recognition without readily available detail, is not uncommon in rural Ireland, where the physical fabric of religious life accumulated quietly across centuries, often without the kind of documented patronage or dramatic founding event that makes a building easy to write about. What is clear is that the building exists, that it matters enough to have been catalogued, and that Lodge itself is a small, unassuming place in Galway where such a church would have served a dispersed rural community through periods of considerable hardship and change.