This West Cork church, recorded by Brady in 1863, survives as a modest but considered piece of early nineteenth-century ecclesiastical architecture, its details worth pausing over.

The building follows a fairly conventional plan for its period: a nave with a chancel projecting at the eastern end, the liturgically traditional orientation that aligns the altar toward Jerusalem. Side chapels and a vestry extend to the north, adding some complexity to what might otherwise be a straightforward rectangular structure. The southern wall of the nave carries three pointed windows, a Gothic Revival touch common to Church of Ireland buildings of this era, when pointed arches were beginning to reassert themselves after decades of plainer Georgian church design. That same southern wall is weatherslated, meaning it is covered in overlapping slate tiles fixed to the exterior surface as protection against driving rain, a practical response to the wet conditions of West Cork that gives the wall a distinctive textured appearance quite different from exposed stone. At the western end rises a pinnacled tower, the pinnacles being the small decorative spires at its corners, lending the building a degree of vertical ambition unusual for a rural parish church of this date.