It did not fall in some distant century; the east and west gables both collapsed outwards in 1995 and 1996, which means the ruin assumed much of its current form within living memory. The side walls still stand to near their original height, making the building feel almost functional from certain angles, until you notice the missing ends and the masonry lying in the grass.

The church is a rectangular structure measuring roughly fourteen metres east to west and just over six metres north to south, late medieval in its surviving details. The south wall retains two openings worth examining closely. The doorway, set slightly west of centre, has a pointed arch with a segmental arch over the embrasure, a layering of forms that reflects the pragmatic eclecticism common in Irish ecclesiastical building of the period. Further east along the same wall, a window survives with a single ogee-headed light, a gently S-curved Gothic form, set into splayed and lintelled embrasure with recessed spandrels. The north wall, by contrast, is entirely plain, and its outer face is collapsing in places. The church's history stretches back at least to 1291, when it appears in the Papal Taxation of that year, a survey of ecclesiastical properties that gives a useful, if imperfect, picture of church organisation in medieval Ireland. By 1615 it was already described as being in ruins, and it appears to have been fully abandoned by 1694. One local account, cited by Grove White writing in the early twentieth century, claimed the building was rebuilt by a Richard Freeman in 1707, but there is no architectural evidence for this, and no record of the church being in active use after 1694 appears to support the claim.