In a roughly one-acre rectangular plot on the south-west bank of a small stream in Kilvealaton, north County Cork, a church once stood, and then vanished so completely that by the time anyone thought to write it down, the absence itself had become the only fact worth noting.

The site was recorded by a researcher named Bowman in 1934, who noted it as a church site on land then belonging to someone identified as H. Foote. The plot, defined by its shape and its position beside the stream, was already a ghost at that point. Bowman's own words leave little room for ambiguity: not a vestige of the church is now to be seen. What denomination the building belonged to, when it was constructed, and when it fell or was cleared away are questions the available record cannot answer. The site appears in connection with a nearby moated site, a type of enclosed medieval homestead typically consisting of a raised platform surrounded by a water-filled ditch, which suggests at least a broadly medieval landscape in the area, though no direct link between the two features is recorded.