At Pollardstown in County Kildare, a pair of gable walls stand at the northern end of an unusually shaped, triangular graveyard, all that remains above ground of what was once a complete medieval church. The north and south sidewalls have long since collapsed or been dismantled, surviving only as grass-covered ridges in the ground, lines just visible enough to suggest the building's original footprint.

The structure was rectangular, measuring roughly 11.6 metres east to west and 5.7 metres north to south internally, built from uncoursed mortared limestone flags and boulders with granite quoins at the corners. Quoins are the dressed stones used to reinforce and finish the angles of a wall, and here they are accompanied by granite mouldings that point to a degree of craftsmanship not always found in smaller rural churches. The east gable once held a three-light window, though it has been robbed out, meaning the cut stone was removed at some point, probably for reuse elsewhere, leaving only a ragged gap. The west gable fared better. Its three lancets, narrow pointed windows with round heads, granite mouldings, small external pointed hoods, and pointed rubble rear arches, remain largely intact and give a reasonable sense of how the building would once have appeared from inside. The church is thought to date from the fourteenth century, a period when such modest stone parish churches were being established across the Irish midlands.