Three of its four walls are gone entirely, leaving only a single stretch of the north wall standing to a height of just over two metres in rough pasture. The structure itself was modest, a rectangular building measuring roughly eleven metres east to west and six and a half metres north to south, the kind of dimensions that suggest a rural parish church rather than anything grand or monastic. Without its eastern, southern, and western walls, the building can barely be read as a building at all, more a fragment of masonry that interrupts the grass and asks you to do the rest of the work.

The church is not isolated in its significance. Immediately nearby lie two features that so often accompany early ecclesiastical sites in the west of Ireland: a holy well and a children's burial ground. The latter, known in Irish as a cillín, was the traditional resting place for unbaptised infants and others who, by the conventions of the institutional church, were excluded from consecrated ground. These sites were maintained quietly by local communities for centuries, often continuing in use long after the church buildings they adjoined had collapsed or been abandoned. The holy well beside the Ballywalter church fits a similarly persistent pattern, these water sources frequently predate Christianity in Ireland and were absorbed into local religious practice rather than displaced by it, accumulating their own customs and feast-day associations over time. Together, the three features point to a site of sustained local importance, even if the documentary record around it is thin.