A visitor that year recorded it as a 'chappel of ease, ruinous', a phrase that captures both its function and its fate in the same breath. A chapel of ease was a secondary place of worship, built to serve parishioners who lived too far from the main parish church to attend regularly. This one, in Kilbarry townland in County Cork, had apparently fallen into disrepair before the century was even out.

What survives today is the shell of a rectangular structure, roughly 9.5 metres north to south and 21.5 metres east to west. The east and west gables are gone entirely, and while sections of the north and south walls still stand, none of the original openings, the windows and doorways that would once have given the building its character and light, remain intact. A graveyard lies immediately to the south, which is not unusual; church and burial ground were typically established together, and the graveyard often outlasts the building it accompanied, continuing in use long after the walls have crumbled. That pattern appears to hold here, where the ground beside the ruin has its own separate record, suggesting the two features have been treated as distinct but related survivals.