The fragment of masonry it now rests upon, barely sixty centimetres high, is one of only two short stretches of wall that remain of a building which, when Ordnance Survey officers recorded it in the nineteenth century, still had its nave and chancel standing, roofless but largely intact. That the structure has since collapsed to almost nothing makes the detail of those earlier descriptions feel all the more peculiar to read back.

The church sits on a slight rise of ground to the south-east of a tower house in Two Mile Borris, County Tipperary, and its origins reach back at least to the early fourteenth century. A church is mentioned in the ecclesiastical taxation of 1302 to 1307 at the "burgage of Milath," a reference that may well apply to this site. The OS Letters, compiled in the 1830s, recorded a nave measuring 17.5 metres by 7.9 metres, with opposing doorways in the north and south walls and two flat-headed windows providing light. The chancel, considerably smaller at 5 metres by 1.8 metres, contained a piscina, a shallow stone basin used for disposing of water blessed during Mass, with a credence shelf positioned above it. A doorway in the chancel's south wall likely led to a sacristy. By the time of that survey the east gable had largely collapsed and several windows were already lost. What survives today is far less: a section of east-west wall just over two metres long, its north face stripped back to exposed rubble and lime mortar, and a second fragment running north-south that, as noted, now serves as a headstone base. A graveslab dating from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century also lies within the graveyard. On the north side, a more recent extension to the burial ground has been added, layering the living and the dead across several centuries of continuous use.