One holds that a round tower once rose on this site, the kind of tall, tapering stone structure built by early Irish monasteries as a bell tower and place of refuge. The other claims this was once a Franciscan friary. Scholars have found no particular evidence to support the friary story, and neither tradition can be firmly anchored to what survives above ground today.

What does survive is a late-medieval parish church, measuring roughly 12.3 metres long by 6.8 metres wide, though the walls are in poor condition and a central projection on the building has collapsed entirely to rubble. The south wall retains no window or door openings, but the east end preserves a dressed stone window with a pointed head and hood moulding, a detail characteristic of late-medieval ecclesiastical building in Ireland. The west gable still shows the ghost of an attic window. The congregation that once gathered here eventually moved on; a new church was built in an adjacent townland in 1793, and from that point the old building was left to settle quietly into the graveyard around it.

The east window is the most legible piece of architecture remaining, and worth seeking out among the ivy. The hood moulding, a projecting course of stone that channels rainwater away from the window opening, gives some sense of the care that went into the original construction, even as the rest of the fabric deteriorates. The graveyard itself remains in use, so the ruins sit in an active rather than wholly abandoned landscape, which lends the visit an odd layering of the continuing and the discontinued.