By 1875, according to his account, only a few ivied fragments of walls were still standing. That so little remains of a site with such a long documentary trail is part of what makes it quietly interesting.

The place appears in the historical record under a variety of spellings, as was common with medieval Irish placenames filtered through Latin administrative documents and anglicised clerical hands. Westropp, writing in 1904 to 1905, gathered these forms together: Atnid in 1201, Athnyde in 1291, 1302, and again in 1418, and Athneady or Adneady in 1306. It was a parish and a prebend, meaning a church living whose revenues supported a cathedral clergyman, within the ecclesiastical territory of Coshmagh in County Limerick. One small human detail surfaces in the calendared state papers: in 1297, a licence was issued to one John, son of Richard, of Athnyd, to cross the sea. Who he was and where he was headed is not recorded, but the entry is a reminder that even minor medieval parishes were connected to the wider world of commerce, pilgrimage, and politics.

The site today is most practically approached with an awareness that the church structure itself offers little to look at. The west wall fragment is the only element marked on modern maps. Of more potential interest to a visitor is Toberregan well, which lies nearby; holy wells of this kind, typically associated with a local saint and sometimes with patterns or seasonal gatherings, often outlasted the ecclesiastical buildings they were associated with. The well is recorded separately in the national monuments record for County Limerick. There is no formal access infrastructure at the church site, so the kind of visit this rewards is an unhurried one, on foot, with an eye for the landscape rather than any expectation of standing masonry.