That designation has followed the spot across every edition of the map, a small admission printed in ink that the church had already slipped beyond recovery by the time surveyors arrived to record it.

By 1700 the building was already in serious decline. A description from that year, cited by Lunham in 1909, records it as "built with stone, lime and clay, the walls are above half down", and gives its dimensions as roughly eighteen feet long by seventeen feet broad. That is a notably modest footprint, little larger than a generous living room, which fits the scale of many early Irish parish churches that served dispersed rural communities with no great resources behind them. The lime and clay construction, a common vernacular binding method in Cork, would not have resisted prolonged neglect any better than the walls' condition in 1700 already suggested. Whatever remained after that point has since vanished entirely.

The site sits within a graveyard at Barnahely, and the graveyard itself survives even where the church does not. This is a pattern repeated across Ireland, where the burial ground outlasts the building it once served, continuing in use long after the walls that gave it purpose have dissolved back into the ground. There is no visible trace of the church today, which means the graveyard now marks the place more honestly than any ruin could.