What makes this quietly puzzling is the paper trail it left behind: the Ordnance Survey's six-inch map of 1842 records it plainly as a church in ruins, meaning it was already lost to active use by the time cartographers first formally documented the Cork coastline. By the time later editions of the same map were produced, even the ruin had gone, the entry downgraded to the blunt designation "site of", which in Irish cartographic convention signals that a structure has ceased to leave any mark on the landscape at all.

The cliff-edge location adds a plausible explanation for its disappearance. Coastal erosion along this stretch of east Cork is an ongoing process, and a building positioned at the edge of eroding ground would have had little chance of long-term survival. Whether the church collapsed gradually into the sea or was simply dismantled and its stones reused, as happened routinely with abandoned ecclesiastical buildings throughout Ireland, the 1842 map entry is now the most substantial record of its existence. No dedication, no founding date, and no associated burial ground are mentioned in what survives, leaving the building without even a patron saint to anchor it in local memory.