No walls rise above the ground, no arch frames the sky; the building has dissolved so completely into the earth that by the time the Ordnance Survey mapped this part of north Cork in 1842, cartographers could only represent it as a broken line, a rectangular ghost roughly twelve metres east to west and seven metres north to south, labelled with the resigned notation "Church (Site of)". The absence is the thing worth noting.

The site carries at least two names drawn from an older Irish geography. The Down Survey of 1655 to 1656, a vast mapping project commissioned after the Cromwellian conquest to catalogue confiscated land, recorded it on the barony map as Kilcloghbane, while local usage settled on Kilcoghlan. Whatever it was originally called, the building was still standing, if only barely, in the later seventeenth century: a church at Mitchelstown was presented for repair in 1682, and the same structure appears again in the record as a chapel-of-ease in repair in 1774. A chapel-of-ease was a secondary place of worship, built to serve parishioners who lived too far from the main parish church to attend regularly. Its modest scale, that footprint of twelve by seven metres, fits that secondary status well. The reason it was ultimately abandoned rather than repaired again is straightforward: a new Church of Ireland parish church opened on George Street in 1801, and the old site was left to the graveyard that surrounds it.

The graveyard itself survives, which means the outline of the vanished church can in principle be traced underfoot, even if nothing marks it above ground. Visitors should expect to find a working burial ground rather than a managed heritage site, with the church's former position unmarked and easy to overlook entirely.