That gap itself is telling. Churches recorded in rural Irish townlands are typically medieval in origin, often roofless and reduced to low stone footings, their graveyards sometimes still in use and their dedications long since forgotten by everyone except the most local of local historians.

Kilkenny is a county saturated with early Christian and medieval ecclesiastical remains. The pattern across the region is one of small parish churches, many of them built or rebuilt in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries following the Anglo-Norman reorganisation of the Irish church, and some occupying sites of far older devotional significance. Without further detail it is not possible to say whether the Weatherstown church follows that pattern, whether it retains standing walls, or whether it survives at all above ground level. What can be said is that its formal recognition as a monument places it in the company of thousands of similar sites across Ireland, the majority of them unmarked on road signs and visited only by those who already know to look.