No nave, no chancel, no roof line; just the west end of what was the parish church of Liscarroll, standing alone with only the briefest stubs of the north and south walls returning from its base. The gable measures just under nine metres across, which gives some sense of the building's original width, and the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map records the whole structure as a rectangular ruin of roughly ten metres east to west, already long past any useful life.

The church had been falling apart for some time before that map was drawn. It was reported as being in ruins as early as 1615, a detail recorded by Brady in the mid-nineteenth century, which places its decline well back into the early seventeenth century at the latest. By 1839, according to Grove White's account written in the early twentieth century, it had already been reduced to what visitors see today: the west gable alone. The burial ground around it continued in use, and the area to the east of where the church once stood is now crowded with burial plots, the dead pressing up against the footprint of the vanished building. A recent consolidation effort has stabilised the surviving gable, though not without some compromise to its appearance; the top has been squared off and the ground has been graded down in an artificial slope towards the south-east corner, where only a low remnant survives. The north-east corner, by contrast, still reaches its original height, giving the wall an uneven, lopsided silhouette that is more legible once you know what you are looking at.