At the northern end of a graveyard in Timahoe, County Kildare, there is a church that has almost entirely returned to the earth. What remains is less a building than a suggestion of one: a low ridge of stone buried under grass, tracing the outline of a rectangular structure roughly twenty metres long and five metres wide. Only at the south-west corner does the wall core rise to any meaningful presence, and even there the most telling detail is an absence. The lintel stone of a window opening survives, but the window itself was long ago robbed out, its dressed stone carried off for use elsewhere, as happened to so many medieval structures across the country once they fell out of regular use.

The church sits within a graveyard that carries its own separate record, suggesting a site with layers of use extending well beyond the building's own legible history. The practice of robbing dressed stone from ruined churches was commonplace from the post-medieval period onwards, which is why so many early Irish ecclesiastical buildings survive only as earthworks or fragmentary wall stubs like this one. The lintel stone left behind may simply have been too awkward or too damaged to be worth taking. Its survival, almost incidental, is now the clearest evidence that a window once looked out from this corner of the building.