No stone, wall, or foundation of the medieval church that once occupied this ground remains visible above the surface. The earlier building has entirely vanished into the earth, leaving a later church to occupy a site whose religious significance predates it by centuries.

The connection to that earlier history comes through one of Munster's more significant Cistercian houses. According to the antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, writing in 1904 to 1905, the abbey of Monasteranenagh was granted the church site at Grange. Monasteranenagh, also known as Maigue Abbey, was a Cistercian monastery established in County Limerick during the twelfth century, and the Cistercians were, among other things, energetic managers of agricultural land, often giving the name "grange" to the outlying farms and estates they controlled. A grange, in this medieval sense, was a monastic farm or dependent landholding, which lends the townland name itself a certain explanatory logic. The post-1700 memorials recorded in the graveyard were noted by O'Kelly in 1944, and the site was compiled for the archaeological record by Caimin O'Brien, uploaded in April 2019.

For anyone making their way to Grange in Smallcounty barony, the experience is a particular kind of archaeological visit, one where the absence is the point. The standing church and its graveyard are accessible, and the memorials within date from the eighteenth century onwards, offering their own layer of local history. There is nothing to see of the medieval phase except the ground itself, which is precisely what makes the site interesting to those attuned to the way Irish ecclesiastical landscapes accumulate and then conceal their own pasts. The association with Monasteranenagh gives context to the silence, suggesting that what looks like an ordinary rural graveyard sits on ground that was once folded into the wider economy and spiritual geography of a major Cistercian institution.