It is the kind of small, precise detail that rarely survives, and the fact that it was still notable enough for the Ordnance Survey letters to record and sketch in the nineteenth century says something about its quiet persistence.

The antiquarian Thomas Westropp, writing in 1904 to 1905, gathered the documentary thread of the place. The parish appears in records as Kylbrigd Minor as early as 1291, and as Kilbride in 1302. In 1329, a legal dispute over the division of land held by one Tancardus Russell drew in a local figure named Jordan Prendergast, who had previously enfeoffed Russell in Kilbride Minor, meaning he had granted him tenure of the land. The dedication to St Brigid, whose feast falls on the 1st of February, was formally recorded in 1410, and the church appears again in records in 1418 and 1615. Westropp noted that the building comprised a nave and choir, the nave measuring roughly 9.3 metres by 6.4 metres and the choir approximately 7 metres by the same width. By 1840 the middle gable and the sides of the choir were still standing, though the structure was already in ruin.

The church sits within the Coshlea district of County Limerick. What survives today is fragmentary, as is typical of medieval parish churches of this scale in Munster, but the carved window detail noted in the Ordnance Survey letters rewards close attention if any portion remains visible. The sketch recorded by the Survey is the most precise surviving record of that stonework, and anyone with an interest in medieval ecclesiastical carving would do well to consult it before visiting, to know what to look for among the remaining fabric.