No walls, no outline, no visible stonework remains; the building has been absorbed entirely into the earth and the burial ground that surrounds it. What makes this quietly strange is that the church was already a ruin by the time anyone thought to properly record it, and even then the record amounts to little more than a sketch and a few lines of description before it vanished further still.

By 1842, when the Ordnance Survey mapped the area at the six-inch scale, the church appeared as a rectangular structure measuring roughly 18.5 metres east to west and 7 metres north to south, annotated simply as being in ruins. Two years later, in 1844, a sketch was made for the OS archives showing a gap towards the western end of the south wall, presumed to be the former doorway, and a larger opening at the eastern end. The interior, even at that point, was occupied by several graves. Writing in the same year, O'Flanagan recorded a low ruin in which all traces of doors and windows had been destroyed. By that description, the building was already so reduced that its architectural character was essentially gone. The dedication of the church is recorded by the historian Charles Smith, who noted in 1750 that it was dedicated to St Finian, an early Irish monastic saint associated with several foundations across Ireland. Beyond that dedication, the church's origins and history are largely silent.