The ruin at Gormanstown sits on a south-west-facing slope and cannot be seen at ground level at all; what survives is a series of undulations in the pasture, the ground itself quietly registering that something once stood here. It is the kind of site that rewards a person who already knows to look, and offers almost nothing to one who does not.

The placename offers the clearest thread back to what was here. The area was once known as Kilballygorman, a name whose derivation was explored by Ó Cearbhaill in 2007, and the "kil" element, from the Irish "cill", almost always signals an early ecclesiastical site. By the time John O'Donovan was compiling the Ordnance Survey Namebooks in 1840, the church had already been reduced to "part of the centre gable" still standing, with what was then described as a font lying beside it. That object is now understood to be a bullaun stone, a rounded boulder with one or more cup-shaped hollows ground into its surface, associated across Ireland with early Christian and pre-Christian ritual use. It no longer lies in the field. The bullaun has since been moved to the grounds of the adjacent property, known as the Model Farm house, where it presumably sits with rather more company than it had for the preceding centuries alone in the grass.

For anyone walking the field today, the absence of visible masonry is itself the point. The undulations that remain around the church's footprint are typical of sites where walls have gradually collapsed and been absorbed into the soil, often creating a characteristic raised platform or series of humps that experienced eyes can read like a plan. The bullaun stone at the Model Farm house nearby is the most tangible remnant of what was once, under its older placename, a recognised place of religious significance in this part of County Tipperary.