That absence is itself a kind of fact. The site is formally recognised as a monument, which means it has been identified and classified, but the details that would normally accompany such a designation, its age, its current condition, whether anything remains above ground, have not yet been made publicly available.

Rathinure is a small rural townland in the south of County Kilkenny, a part of Ireland with a deep medieval Christian landscape. Church sites in this region range from early medieval foundations, sometimes marked by little more than a graveyard and a few dressed stones, to later medieval parish churches that fell into ruin after the upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Without more specific information about this particular site, it is not possible to say which tradition it belongs to, or what physical traces, if any, survive. The name Rathinure, derived from the Irish, suggests a settlement of some age, and church sites in such locations frequently have origins that predate the Norman period, though that remains speculative here.