That, in itself, is the point. Somewhere beneath the grass, or at least according to local memory, lie the last traces of a church that had already been reduced to its foundations by around 1960, and which had vanished entirely from the surface by the time archaeologists came to look in 1985.

The place was recorded as a possible church site during the Castleisland District Archaeological Survey, which noted the tradition passed down among local people that foundations of a church-like structure had been visible in the field until roughly the 1960s. The most telling detail, however, is the Irish name that has clung to the area long after any physical trace disappeared. Cnocán na hEaglaise, meaning Hill of the Church, preserves in language what the ground no longer shows. The local landowner at the time of the survey suggested the site lay to the west of a low rise or hillock near the centre of the field, that small undulation in the earth perhaps the only remaining hint of something once deliberately built there. No date, no dedication, and no documentary record appears to survive, leaving the place suspended between local knowledge and archaeological uncertainty.