The Ordnance Survey maps of 1842 and 1904 make no mention of it at all, yet by 1937 a church site appears on the six-inch sheet, tucked inside a ringfort, a roughly circular enclosure of raised earthwork that was typically used as a farmstead or place of refuge in early medieval Ireland. No stones, no foundations, no outline in the grass remain today to confirm it was ever there.

The only description of any substance comes from a 1934 account by Bowman, who recorded the site as 'a mound of stones, having a whitethorn tree at each end.' That pair of whitethorns is telling. In Ireland the hawthorn carries a long association with sacred and liminal spaces, and its presence flanking a mound of rubble suggests that local memory had preserved something of the site's character long after any structure had collapsed or been cleared. The 1937 map also marks a children's burial ground nearby, known in Irish tradition as a cillín, a place set apart from consecrated ground where unbaptised infants were quietly interred. The pairing of the two sites, church and cillín, within or beside a ringfort, points to a pattern common across early Christian Ireland, where religious activity gathered around older, pre-existing enclosures.

By the time anyone thought to look carefully, the mound Bowman described had itself disappeared. No visible surface trace now remains, and the whitethorn trees, if they survived, would be the only markers left of whatever once stood there.