Nothing of the original structure appears to survive above ground, and it is local tradition rather than any visible stonework that preserves the memory of what was here. That tradition identifies the site as a mass-house, a term worth pausing on. During the Penal Laws of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Catholic worship was suppressed or severely restricted in Ireland, congregations gathered in informal or makeshift buildings well away from the established ecclesiastical infrastructure. These became known as mass-houses, and the word carried a particular weight in communities that had little else to mark where their religious life had taken place.

The attribution to O'Donoghue, writing in 1986, suggests the tradition was alive in living memory within the locality, passed along without any physical structure to anchor it. This is not unusual in rural Ireland, where placenames and oral accounts often outlast the buildings themselves by centuries. The townland name Killaneetig is itself suggestive: the kill element derives from the Irish cill, meaning church or monastic cell, pointing to an ecclesiastical association that likely predates any Penal-era use by a considerable margin. Whether the mass-house tradition refers to a structure built specifically for that purpose or to an older building repurposed during the Penal period is not recorded.