Somewhere along the eastern bank of a stream, the land still carries the local name of the chapel bank, a designation passed down not through documents but through conversation. It was Paddy Boyle who relayed the tradition, and in places like this, a name carried in local memory can often outlast any stonework.

The Down Survey, that extraordinary seventeenth-century cartographic project undertaken across Ireland during the Cromwellian period, recorded this area along with an accompanying terrier, which is a written register of land boundaries and ownership, and together these sources identify the ground as Glebe land. Glebe land was property attached to a church or religious institution, set aside to provide income or sustenance for the clergy. In this case, the land is associated with St Mary's Abbey, the significant Cistercian monastery that once operated in Dublin. The precise location described in the notes places the site at the north end of a pasture field, east of the river, where the ground drops steeply toward the water.

There is no structure to visit here, no ruin visible above ground, and no signage to guide the eye. What the site offers instead is a particular kind of encounter with the landscape itself. The steep fall to the river that the notes describe is a feature worth reading carefully; that kind of topography often accounts for why a chapel or ancillary building was sited where it was, offering both drainage and a degree of natural enclosure. Anyone approaching the area on foot should be aware the terrain near the riverbank can be uneven, and the pasture field setting means the land is likely in agricultural use. The interest here is less in what can be seen and more in holding the connection between a seventeenth-century land survey, a medieval abbey's landholdings, and a field name that a local man thought worth mentioning.