The rectangular structure still has its pointed window openings intact, an annexe projecting from the north wall, and an overgrown gatehouse at the western end of the surrounding graveyard. The graveyard itself is unusually elongated, running roughly 130 metres east to west and about 40 metres north to south, which gives the whole enclosure an oddly formal, stretched quality in the landscape.

The site has a restless building history, cycling repeatedly between neglect and repair. The ancient parish church that originally stood here was already in ruins by 1615, yet somehow returned to good repair by 1639, only to be replaced entirely in 1700 by a new structure built, as a contemporary account put it, 'with stone and clay, and plastered within and slated ... about 30 foot long, and 18 broad.' That modest building was described by the topographer Samuel Lewis in 1837 as 'a small dilapidated building,' though it was reported to be in a satisfactory state by 1860, then closed for some years before renovation in 1876. The graveyard wall itself dates partly from 1676, when thirteen shillings and threepence per ploughland was raised locally to fund it, a detail that gives some sense of how the community organised and financed its sacred spaces. The inscribed headstones visible today date from the mid-nineteenth century. Just to the south, in the adjacent field, lies the site of the deserted settlement known as Ballinaboy Town, a reminder that the church once served a community that has since entirely vanished from the ground around it.