The site known as Kilshinshame carries no visible trace above ground, no tumbled wall, no grave slab, no outline in the grass. What it does carry is a name: the Irish Cill Sin Sheamus translates roughly as "church of James the Elder", a dedication that places it within the tradition of early ecclesiastical naming and hints at a foundation with Norman-era origins.

Local tradition, recorded by O'Donoghue in 1986, describes this as the site of an old Norman church, and the name itself preserves a memory the ground no longer shows. When a boundary fence on the eastern edge of the field was removed, the landowner reported uncovering what may have been the foundations of the building, a brief glimpse of buried stonework before the ground was disturbed again. More suggestive still is what tradition says happened to the church's fabric. The stones, according to local account, were used in the construction of Crossmahon House itself, and two pointed window surrounds, the kind of gothic-arched openings associated with ecclesiastical architecture, were incorporated into the east gable of the house. They are still there, apparently, though plastered over and invisible to anyone who does not already know to look for them.