Not collapsed into a picturesque ruin, not absorbed into a later building, but simply gone, leaving no visible trace on the surface at all. The church of Killaspugmullane, whose name likely derives from the Irish for Bishop Molana's church, once occupied a measurable footprint in this landscape, and now there is nothing to see.

The historical record traces a slow decline. In 1615 the building was still in repair, a functioning part of parish life. By 1700, however, a contemporary description recorded a structure of roughly 46 feet long and 17 feet broad, with half the walls already down. That account, preserved in Brady's 1863 work on Irish episcopal succession, catches the church at a particular moment of deterioration, specific enough to feel almost forensic. By 1829 it had passed out of use entirely. What followed over the succeeding two centuries was apparently complete absorption into the ground, whether through stone robbing, vegetation, soil accumulation, or some combination of all three. The outline that the 1700 observer could still describe has since been swallowed without leaving so much as a grassed-over ridge.