No stones, no marker, no indication that anything ever stood there. Yet somewhere in that ordinary road junction lies the buried footprint of a medieval chapel, its last visible remains carted away around 1840 and the ground planted over with trees.

The chapel belonged to a Magdalen hospital, a type of medieval charitable institution typically providing care for the sick or destitute, which stood just outside Gowran's town wall, close to what was called the Magdalan Gate. The local historian William Carrigan, writing in 1905, recorded that the structure had been dismantled decades earlier and the site quietly landscaped. The 1900 revision of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map still acknowledged it, marking the location as "Church (Site of)", a small cartographic concession to something already long gone. What Carrigan could not have known was that the ground had not entirely surrendered its history. During a thunderstorm sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, several of the trees planted to replace the chapel were uprooted by the storm, and the upheaval exposed skeletons beneath the roots. The burials were presumably associated with the hospital and its chapel, the dead of a medieval institution reappearing briefly before the earth was, presumably, closed over them again.

Today the site leaves no impression on the landscape. The road junction looks like any other rural meeting of tarmac and verge, and nothing marks the angle where the chapel once stood.