To the eye it reads as a cruciform building, that classic cross-shaped arrangement of nave, transepts, and chancel, yet the Ordnance Survey maps of 1842 and 1904 both show only a T-shaped structure on the same ground. The chancel arm, which extends to the south-east and completes the cross, is therefore a later addition, quietly grafted onto a building that was already well into its life before that fourth limb appeared.

The church is otherwise consistent in character with nineteenth-century rural ecclesiastical architecture in Munster. Its long nave runs on a north-west to south-east axis, and the transepts and nave are each lit by pointed windows, the kind of restrained Gothic detail that became almost standard for Irish Catholic church-building as the century progressed. Entry is through a door set in the north-west gable, above which a bellcote, a small open framework designed to hold one or two bells without requiring a full tower, rises from the roofline. Inside, the ceiling is formed from panelled timber, and a classical wooden surround frames the arch leading into the chancel, an ornamental detail that sits in mild contrast to the Gothic fenestration outside. That mixture of classical and Gothic elements within a single modest building is itself a small marker of how local taste and available craftsmen could quietly override any single stylistic programme.