No one knows exactly when it disappeared, but by the time the first Ordnance Survey six-inch map was published in 1839, it was already gone, erased from the landscape without even the courtesy of a cartographic footnote.

The historian William Carrigan, writing in 1905 in his survey of the Catholic diocese of Ossory, recorded what he could find at the site. He described the graveyard and noted one of two medieval graveslabs that survive within it, carved stones of the kind that mark high-status or ecclesiastical burials from the medieval period. He made no mention of any medieval church, which suggests it had left no trace by his time either. The only church Carrigan identified on the site was a penal chapel, a modest place of Catholic worship of the kind built during the Penal Laws era, when Catholic religious practice operated under legal restriction and congregations made do with simple, often temporary structures. That chapel occupied the ground where the current Catholic church now stands. The medieval church itself, the original focus of this ecclesiastical site, is presumed to lie somewhere within or immediately beside the existing graveyard, but its precise location remains unconfirmed.