There is no building, no ruin, no stonework left above ground to indicate that this was once the site of a church. The absence itself is the thing worth noting.

The church that stood here was built in 1696, replacing an older church of St Mary's Shandon that had occupied a position further up Shandon Hill. It survived for the better part of two centuries before being taken down in 1879, the year that a new St Mary's Shandon was consecrated in Sunday's Well. When the building was demolished, its monuments, commemorative tablets and funerary memorials were not simply discarded; they were relocated to the nearby St Anne's Shandon, the well-known church with the four-faced clock tower that has been a feature of the Shandon skyline since the eighteenth century. That transfer means the physical memory of the 1696 church is not entirely lost, only dispersed. The graveyard it once served remained, however, repurposed in a way that sits oddly with its origins, the ground still containing whoever was interred there while children play overhead.