Tucked to the east, within the same burial ground, are the remains of an earlier church, its presence suggesting that this patch of ground has drawn people for worship and burial across more than one era, the newer building constructed almost alongside the ruins of its predecessor rather than replacing it elsewhere.

The standing church dates to 1849, a fact recorded by Brady in 1863, which places its construction in a period of considerable upheaval in rural Ireland. Its architecture follows a modest Gothic Revival approach common to mid-nineteenth century ecclesiastical building: buttressed walls lend structural support to the nave, while three pointed windows in both the north and south walls admit light in the lancet style associated with that period's revival of medieval forms. At the eastern end there is a chancel, the liturgical space traditionally reserved for the altar and clergy, while the western end is marked by a porch entrance and a tower with a spire. It is an orderly, purposeful composition, typical of the period without being merely anonymous.

What gives the site its particular interest is the layering. The older church remains to the east within the same graveyard, and the 1849 building was placed in a western extension of that ground rather than on the original footprint. The two structures now coexist in the same enclosed space, one ruined and one intact, the graveyard quietly absorbing both.