At Stouke, a short distance away, a graveyard holds the remains of what is recorded as the original parish church of Schull, a detail easily overlooked given how thoroughly the later settlement has eclipsed its predecessor.

The connection was noted by O'Donoghue in 1986, who identified the ruined structure within the graveyard at Stouke as the first parish church serving the Schull area. The shift of ecclesiastical and communal focus away from such early sites was common across rural Ireland, where medieval or early modern church foundations were gradually abandoned as populations moved, parishes were reorganised, and new buildings were raised elsewhere. What remains at Stouke is the kind of quiet residue that such transitions leave behind, a ruin in a burial ground that outlasted the institution it once housed.