Barry Builder A.D. 1817", and that inscription is, in a quiet way, the least of what is layered into this site. Beneath the graveyard and the modest nineteenth-century structure lies ground that has been in continuous religious use for the best part of a millennium, passing through the hands of medieval monks, a post-Reformation parish, and eventually a new Protestant congregation without anyone ever quite starting from scratch.

The site was once occupied by a Cistercian abbey, an order known for planting its monasteries in deliberately remote, agricultural landscapes. That community eventually gave way to the parish church of Tracton, which may itself have been the former abbey church repurposed rather than rebuilt. By 1699, a visitor recorded the church as being in good repair, with its graveyard partly enclosed by a wall and partly by a ditch, a practical combination that was common in rural Ireland before permanent stone enclosures became standard. That parish church was replaced in 1817 when the present Church of Ireland building was erected, a small rectangular structure with three pointed windows along both its north and south walls and a gabled porch to the west. It was extensively repaired around 1860. The rectangular graveyard surrounding it measures roughly sixty metres east to west and forty metres north to south, and the earliest legible headstones date from the mid-eighteenth century, though the ground itself holds considerably older associations.

The church is approached by a laneway from the north. The graveyard remains in occasional use, so the site has not entirely retreated into history, and headstones from several centuries sit alongside one another with no particular ceremony about the arrangement.