Locally it has always been called the chapel field, and that name is the most substantial thing remaining of whatever once stood there. No walls, no foundations, no trace of masonry breaks the surface. The field keeps its secret entirely.

What the name points toward is a tradition of clandestine worship. According to a 1934 account by Bowman, the land belonged to a P. Aherne, and local memory held that mass was offered here during the Penal Times. The Penal Laws, enacted in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, banned Catholic worship and barred priests from the country, pushing the practice of the faith outdoors and underground, quite literally in some cases. Mass rocks, remote hillsides, and corners of private fields became improvised sanctuaries. Sites like this one were chosen for their obscurity, which means that now, centuries on, the obscurity is all that survives. No architectural evidence confirms the tradition at Shronebeha, and what Bowman recorded was already the echo of a memory rather than documented history. That the field retained its local name at all suggests the memory mattered to the people who kept it.