At Ballyknockane in County Tipperary, the construction of a roadway cut through the western end of an already long-ruined church, exposing a section of its southern wall that might otherwise have remained buried beneath the grass of a forgotten graveyard. That surviving fragment measures just over eleven metres in length and about seventy centimetres thick, which is all that remains of a structure that was already described as destroyed when nineteenth-century surveyors came through.

The Ordnance Survey's first-edition six-inch map, produced in the 1830s, recorded the site as a graveyard containing a church in ruins. By the time the OS Letters were compiled, the account given by O'Flanagan in 1930 described it plainly as a destroyed church with only fragmentary remains of one wall surviving in a deserted graveyard. The site sits on a low rise of rock outcrop amid undulating countryside, the kind of slight elevation that early Christian communities in Ireland often favoured for their ecclesiastical enclosures. The deserted graveyard surrounding the wall suggests the site was once a functioning place of burial, likely serving a local parish or townland community whose name, Ballyknockane, is now more familiar than the church itself.