It is unremarkable to look at, and that is precisely the point. Beneath the grass, or rather nowhere beneath the grass at all, lies the vanished church and graveyard of the ancient parish of Mogeesha. No stone, no foundation, no upright marker survives. The place is, as the historian Power wrote in 1923, one of absolute absence.

The Down Survey, that extraordinary mid-seventeenth-century mapping project carried out under William Petty between 1655 and 1656, records the church and its associated graveyard at this location. By the time that survey was made, the site was already giving way to other uses; the fortified house known as Ballyannan Castle was subsequently built nearby, and the earlier ecclesiastical remains were either cleared away or simply left to dissolve into the land. The triangular plateau that researcher Paul MacCotter identified as the likely footprint of the church and graveyard suggests a raised, defined enclosure of the kind often associated with early Irish ecclesiastical sites, where the boundary of the sacred ground was as significant as anything built within it. That the parcel of land retains a distinct geometric shape at all is perhaps the only legible trace of what Mogeesha once was.