In a graveyard at Cloney in County Kildare, the most complete surviving feature of a ruined medieval church is, somewhat paradoxically, its doorway. While the building itself has been reduced over time to little more than its lowest wall courses, the entrance arch has endured in good condition, a two-centred limestone arch constructed from just two stones, framing a opening roughly a metre wide and a metre and a half tall. The two-centred arch, formed by two curves meeting at a gentle point, is a form commonly associated with Gothic ecclesiastical building in Ireland, and its survival here is quietly remarkable given how little of the surrounding structure remains.

What persists of the church beyond that doorway is modest: a heavily ivy-covered fragment of the western gable wall, and the lower courses of a rectangular structure measuring at least eleven metres east to west and six and a half metres north to south, built from limestone rubble masonry with walls roughly three quarters of a metre thick. The building sits within a graveyard, which is itself often a reliable indicator of an early ecclesiastical site, since burial grounds in Ireland frequently preserve the footprint of churches long after the fabric of those buildings has otherwise disappeared into the ground or been robbed for later construction.