The dimensions are almost identical, which gives the coincidence an odd, quiet weight: the modern outbuilding runs roughly thirteen metres north to south, and the church it replaced measured forty-five feet, or about 13.7 metres, along the same axis. Nothing of the original structure survives above ground. No carved stonework, no window tracery, no threshold. The site has been fully absorbed into the working life of a farmyard.

The church was the Roman Catholic parish church of Kilcloony, built in 1729. That date places it in the era before Catholic Emancipation, when Catholic worship in Ireland was technically restricted under the Penal Laws, and churches were often modest, functional buildings with little ornamentation. The Kilcloony church fits that pattern: according to P.K. Egan, writing in 1960, it had pointed windows set into its western wall and was oriented north to south rather than on the more conventional east-west axis typical of Christian liturgical buildings. Why it was aligned that way is not recorded. The church eventually fell out of use, and by the time anyone thought to document it properly, only the memory of it remained, preserved in Egan's description and in the ground beneath the farmyard.

About two hundred metres to the north-east, a holy well, a spring or water source with pre-Christian or early Christian religious associations, survives in the landscape. The proximity of a holy well to a parish church is not unusual in Ireland; such wells were often incorporated into or tolerated alongside Christian devotional practice. Here, the well outlasted the church by some considerable margin, and continues to mark the older sacred geography of the area even as the church itself has completely vanished.