No walls, no doorway, no carved stonework; just a gentle swelling of the earth in the north-west corner of the burial ground, quietly announcing that something once stood here.

By 1615, the church was already recorded as being in ruins, which places its decline well before the more familiar waves of religious upheaval and plantation that reshaped so much of Munster in the seventeenth century. The Ordnance Survey map of 1842 still showed a rectangular structure in that north-west quadrant of the graveyard, labelled as ruinous but at least traceable in outline. By the time the surveyors returned for the 1904 edition, even that outline had gone; the cartographers could only note the "site of" the church, a small typographic admission of total loss. The name Templesque, or Templesque in older forms, follows the common Irish pattern of incorporating the Latin "tempull" (church) into a place name, meaning the very name of the parish preserves a memory of the building that the ground itself has almost entirely absorbed.