What makes this site quietly arresting is how completely one thing has displaced the other. The house now occupies the ground where the ecclesiastical building stood, leaving no visible trace of its predecessor.

The annalists, those medieval Irish chroniclers who tracked the affairs of churches, kings, and communities across the centuries, record a church or cell dedicated to St. Patrick at this location. According to the Annals of the Four Masters, it was still in use as late as 1614, which places it well into the post-Reformation period, a detail that raises its own questions about continuity and local religious practice. A dedication to St. Patrick in this part of Connacht is not unusual, but the persistence of the site into the early seventeenth century gives it a certain stubborn presence in the record. After that date, silence. At some point, the ground was absorbed into what became the Towerhill Demesne, and Tower Hill House was eventually built over whatever physical remains the church had left behind.