What makes it quietly compelling is the speed of its decline, at least as the historical record captures it. In 1615 it was still a functioning building, noted as being in repair. By 1693, less than eighty years later, it was already described as ruinous. That collapse within a single lifetime, from a working parish church to a shell, is a reminder of how quickly institutional abandonment can undo centuries of construction.

The building measures roughly 13.7 metres east to west and 8.1 metres north to south, a modest footprint typical of rural medieval churches in Munster. The upper portion of the east gable is gone, and the east window has been largely destroyed, though a surviving light in the south wall still carries an ogee-headed arch, the gentle S-curve profile associated with late medieval Gothic stonework in Ireland. Near the west end of the south wall, a lintelled doorway survives, its flat stone lintel a simpler, older constructional approach than the arched openings sometimes found in churches of comparable date. More telling are the liturgical fittings recorded near the east end of the south wall: the remains of a piscina and an aumbry. A piscina is a small stone basin set into the wall, used by a priest to wash the chalice and hands during Mass; an aumbry is a wall cupboard, typically used to store sacred vessels or the reserved Eucharist. Their presence together points to a space that was, at one point, fully equipped for the celebration of the Mass, even if the building around them has long since ceased to function in that role. Both were illustrated and described by Webster in 1932, when enough remained to make them legible.