No stone, no outline, no earthwork rising from the ground. The site is essentially a coordinate and a name, its presence confirmed only through documentary research rather than anything a visitor might observe with their own eyes.

The church was dedicated to St. Finbar, the sixth-century monk and bishop who is most closely associated with Cork city, where he is said to have founded a monastery that gave the city its ecclesiastical origins. His name attached itself to a scatter of early Christian sites across the region, and this one in Kilbarry was among them. Writing in 1986, a researcher named O'Donoghue placed the church here, adjoining a burial ground that is recorded separately. The ground itself is boggy, the kind of low-lying, waterlogged terrain that can swallow foundations over centuries and make archaeological recovery difficult without excavation. Whether the building was ever substantial, or was always a modest early medieval structure of timber and earth, is not something the surviving record answers.