The 1935 Ordnance Survey six-inch map still marks the spot, a cartographic ghost recording something the landscape itself no longer acknowledges. There is nothing to see, which is in its own way the point.

The church served the parish of Kilshanahan, and by 1700 it had already fallen into a state of near-total collapse. A contemporary account, preserved in Brady's records, described it with quiet finality: built of stone and clay, altogether ruinous, only the west end still standing and that covered with ivy. It was, the observer noted, a very small church. The combination of modest scale and vernacular materials, stone bonded with clay rather than lime mortar, helps explain why so little endured. Clay-mortared construction, while common in earlier Irish ecclesiastical building, weathers poorly once a roof is lost and maintenance ceases. Within a generation or two of abandonment, such structures could dissolve back into the ground almost without trace.