That small detail speaks to the improvised, layered quality of the whole site: a 13th-century church on flat ground in Newtown, enclosed within a rectangular stone-walled graveyard, now heavily ivy-clad and encroached upon by scrub, its north wall leaning outward and partly collapsed into a rubble heap at its own base.

By the time of the Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656, the place was already recorded as 'a little Church unroofed' in the townland then called Newtownelennane, which tells us that the abandonment predates Cromwellian-era documentation. The fabric that survives is nonetheless remarkably detailed for a ruin in this condition. Built from sandstone rubble in roughly coursed courses, the walls still stand to around four metres in places. The east gable retains a triple-light lancet window, its moulded sandstone surrounds reaching between three and a half and four metres in height, though the flanking lancets have been blocked with sandstone. Inside, at the east end of the south wall, a pointed-headed piscina, a shallow basin used for disposing of water from the Mass, sits beside a flat-headed aumbry, a small wall cupboard used to store liturgical vessels, both with moulded surrounds. A second aumbry at the east end of the north wall preserves only its internal roll-moulding intact. Three fragments of a graveslab lie on the floor at the east end of the interior. The most striking object formerly associated with the church is now absent: a sheela-na-gig, one of the carved figures of ambiguous or apotropaic function found occasionally on Irish medieval ecclesiastical buildings, was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1968, having been documented by A. T. Lucas in 1971.