Its interior, a gable-ended rectangle measuring roughly 16.7 metres from east to west and 6.6 metres across, is overgrown and used as a dump for graveyard rubbish. The south wall has collapsed entirely, the east window is much ruined, and only the west wall retains anything approaching grandeur, a tall central window opening with a splayed embrasure, though even that has lost its upper section. What floor space remains is largely swallowed by a large flat-topped burial vault that fills most of the western third of the interior. It is, in other words, a building that has quietly ceded the argument.

The peculiar thing is how recently that argument was still being made. In 1699 the church was recorded as being in good repair, and it served as the Church of Ireland parish church of Ballymartle until a new church was built to the south around 1840. Yet by 1837, just a few years before it was decommissioned, it was already being described as so old and decayed that no record existed of the date or cost of its original construction. That observation was recorded by Brady in 1863, and it points to a building whose origins had already slipped beyond reach two centuries ago. Ball-Wright, writing in the early twentieth century, noted two memorials connected with the Meade family of Ballintober: one dated 1702 in the newer church, and one dated 1717 in the chancel of this older building. Those stones are among the few fixed points in what is otherwise a notably undocumented history.