It is the ghost of a building rather than a ruin in any conventional sense, and yet those two fragments of masonry carry enough detail to suggest what was once a complete and functioning place of worship.

The church was apparently built between 1700 and 1728, and it served as the Church of Ireland parish church for the Kilmichael area until it closed for worship in 1910. A writer named Brunicardi, describing it in 1913, found a rectangular building measuring 40 feet 8 inches by 24 feet 6 inches, with a small porch at the west end, three Gothic windows along each of the side walls, and a further window in the east wall. What makes his account quietly unsettling is that the building was still largely intact at that point. He noted that the interior remained fully furnished, but that everything was in disorder and showing clear signs of decay. Three years after the doors had closed, the pews, fittings, and furnishings were still in place, simply left to deteriorate. The church sits near the northern end of a graveyard at Moneycusker, in mid Cork, which gives some sense of its setting, surrounded by the longer continuity of burial ground even as the building itself was being quietly abandoned.

Today the south wall is all that meaningfully remains, the Gothic windows and the west porch described by Brunicardi long gone, along with whatever disorder he found inside.