The north bellcote still stands intact, which makes the asymmetry of the west gable one of the more quietly arresting things about the building: one opening complete, one a broken stub, the whole arrangement speaking to centuries of slow attrition rather than any single dramatic collapse.

The church is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose feast falls on the 8th of September, according to Healy writing between 1874 and 1879. The lancet windows, long narrow openings with pointed heads that became common in the thirteenth century, suggest the building dates from that period. Six of them originally lit the interior, two in the east gable and two each in the north and south walls near the east end. Their external faces are chamfered and rebated, and internally they open into wide, round-headed embrasures that would have spread the light across the nave. Several are now broken out or obscured by ivy, and the masonry above a number of them is simply gone. The walls themselves are limestone rubble, roughly coursed, with larger dressed blocks at the corners and a low base-batter, a slight outward slope at the foot of the wall, running along the south side. Putlog holes, the small square sockets left by the timber scaffolding poles used during construction, are still visible in every wall, and traces of plaster rendering survive on the north and south faces internally. Near the east end of the south wall there is a breach where a piscina once sat; a piscina is a shallow stone basin used for rinsing liturgical vessels, always positioned near the altar. On the opposite wall a recess with broken-out masonry may have been an aumbry, a small wall cupboard used to store sacred objects. A graveyard clean-up in the 1990s turned up a large quantity of cut stones that had lain buried or hidden; some were kept within the graveyard boundary, others moved to the adjoining field. Clomantagh Castle and its bawn, a walled enclosure typical of late medieval tower-house complexes, sit roughly 130 metres to the north, placing the church within a broader settlement cluster that also includes earthworks immediately north of the graveyard.