It is listed as a monument, which means it has been identified and assigned protected status, but the details that would normally accompany such a designation, its age, its dedication, any surviving fabric or earthwork, remain effectively out of reach for the casual researcher.

Ballyvongane is a small rural townland in Cork, and church sites of this type in the Irish countryside can range considerably in character. Some are medieval parish churches reduced to a single gable wall or a scatter of dressed stone. Others are earlier still, associated with early Christian foundations, sometimes marked by little more than a slightly raised enclosure in a field, the circular or oval boundary of an ancient ecclesiastical site just visible as a cropmark or a soft ridge in the grass. Without specific detail it is not possible to say which category this site falls into, only that it was considered significant enough to record.