The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map marks it simply as a 'Church (in Ruins)', and what survives today is poorly preserved enough that the label does most of the imaginative work. Its position, at the western end of a small children's burial ground, gives it a particular quality of stillness. Such burial grounds, known in Irish as cillíní, were traditionally used for unbaptised infants and others who could not be interred in consecrated ground, placing them at a quiet remove from official religious life even while occupying the edge of it.

The ruins sit 35 metres south of the River Maigue and 100 metres northwest of Monasteranenagh Abbey, the Cistercian house of St. Maria de Magio, which was a considerably grander establishment. The antiquarian Thomas Johnson Westropp, writing in 1904 to 1905, described this smaller structure as simply 'a small building near the river', a characteristically spare note that nonetheless confirms the ruins were recognisable as a distinct feature at the turn of the twentieth century. Westropp was a prolific recorder of ecclesiastical and prehistoric remains across Munster, and his brief mention here is useful precisely because it establishes continuity; whatever this building once was, it had not yet entirely dissolved back into the field by his time.

The site is set in pasture, which means access may depend on land use and the cooperation of local farmers. The proximity to Monasteranenagh Abbey, itself a substantial and better-documented ruin, means the two are best treated as a single visit. Once at the abbey, the smaller ruin lies to the northwest, close to the riverbank. The remains are slight, so the children's burial ground at its western end serves as the clearest orientation point on the ground. Nothing about the site announces itself, which is, in its own way, the point.