The church itself has all but dissolved back into the hillside; what survives is a low stony bank, roughly half a metre high and between two and a half and three metres wide, tracing a rectangular footprint of approximately fifteen and a half metres east to west and seven metres north to south. It is the kind of ruin that rewards close attention rather than immediate recognition.

The wider enclosure that contains both the church remains and the graveyard is D-shaped, measuring around forty-two metres in one direction and thirty-nine in the other, defined by an earth and stone bank with external drystone facing. This type of enclosure, with its curving boundary bank, is a common feature of early ecclesiastical sites in Ireland, where the sacred precinct was physically demarcated from the surrounding landscape. The dedication to Saint Michael, embedded in the placename Templemichael, is likewise a recurring one across early Irish Christianity. The graveyard holds headstones dating to the mid-eighteenth century, and burials continue there to the present day, meaning the site has been in more or less unbroken use from its early medieval origins to now, even as the church that gave it purpose has long since disappeared into grass and rubble.