No walls, no foundations, no legible ground; just a low wooded island and the knowledge that something was once there.

The paper trail is thin but suggestive. The Ordnance Survey Letters of 1838, compiled as part of the great topographical survey of Ireland and now a valuable source for local lore and lost structures, record what they describe as "the ruins of the religious edifice" on Inishlee. Yet neither the 1838 nor the 1930 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps mark any church on the island, which raises the question of how substantial the remains were even then. Alongside the church, the island appears to have held a burial ground, part of which served as a children's burial ground, known in Irish tradition as a cillín. These were informal, unconsecrated plots used for the interment of unbaptised infants, and they are found across Ireland, often in liminal places: island edges, old ringforts, townland boundaries. By 1996, when the site was inspected, no physical trace of either the church or the burial ground could be found.