That contrast gives the ruin a curious quality: two long walls of dressed stone standing firm after more than three centuries of abandonment, framing a roofless interior open to the sky.

The church measures roughly 16.8 metres east to west and 7.6 metres north to south internally, a standard rectangular form for a medieval Irish parish church. Its documented history stretches back to 1291, when it was listed in the Papal Taxation, a survey of ecclesiastical properties across Ireland and England compiled to assess contributions to a proposed crusade. It was still described as being in repair in 1615, but by 1694 it had been abandoned. By the early twentieth century the decay was well advanced: a 1909 observation recorded only three or four feet of the east gable surviving, and about nine feet of the west end still standing. The south wall retains its principal entrance, a doorway set slightly west of centre, with a segmental relieving arch on the outside, possibly a later rebuild. Part of the west door jamb remains, along with a drawbar socket on the east side, the slot that once held the timber bar used to secure the door from within. A wide gap near the east end of the north wall, around 2.5 metres across, has no obvious decorative or structural feature. The small holes visible in the walls are most likely putlog holes, the sockets left behind when the timber scaffolding used during construction was removed.