There is nothing to see. No stone, no outline, no hollow in the ground that would give a curious visitor cause to stop. The site exists almost entirely in memory and in the place name itself, which carries the word "kill", from the Irish "cill", meaning a cell or early church, often associated with the modest monastic foundations of early Christian Ireland. The name alone is a kind of fossil, preserving the memory of a religious presence long after any physical trace has gone.

What makes the place quietly compelling is precisely that absence. Archaeological inventories record it not as a ruin but as a tradition, a category of site that resists the usual satisfactions of visible remains. The name Kill Saint Anne points to a dedication, presumably to Saint Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary, though nothing survives to confirm the character or age of whatever once stood here. Approximately 150 metres to the south-east, the ruins of Barrymore Castle, a fortified house, remain as a more legible landmark, suggesting that this corner of Cork was once a place of some consequence, even if the church itself has left no mark on the ground.