The Church of Ireland parish church of Inishcarra at Carrigyknaveen sits in a wooded churchyard in mid Cork, while roughly two kilometres to the south-southeast the ruins of the earlier parish church still stand, a reminder that the congregation simply moved on rather than disappeared. The newer building is a compact, purposeful structure, its three-storey tower finished with an embattled parapet and small pinnacles, the kind of restrained Gothic detail that was fashionable for rural Protestant churches in early nineteenth-century Ireland.

The nave was built in 1818, according to both Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland and a later account by Cole. A stone plaque above the entrance door in the south wall of the tower records that the tower itself followed a year later, in 1819. Three pointed windows with Y-tracery, a simple pattern in which the window's tracery divides like the fork of the letter Y, light the south wall of the nave. At the western end, a gallery carries memorials to the Colthurst family, the local landed family whose connection to the parish is marked here in stone and timber. A shallow square chancel was added at the eastern end in 1893, rounding out a building that accumulated its present form over the better part of a century. The churchyard to the south-east of the church holds burials from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the congregation continuing to use the ground long after the building itself had settled into its final shape.