The village is modest in the way that many rural Irish settlements are, and yet it carries the quiet weight of a place that has held its language and its local traditions closer than most. Somewhere within or near the settlement lies a church site old enough to have been recorded as an archaeological monument, which places it in a category of structures that range from early medieval foundations to post-medieval parish buildings, sometimes little more than a grass-covered outline, sometimes a roofless shell with legible detail still standing in the walls.