On its own it would attract little notice, but this modest ridge, together with traces of an outer fosse, or ditch, running from the south-west through to the north-west, may be what survives of an early ecclesiastical enclosure, the kind of roughly circular boundary that defined the sacred precinct of an early Irish monastic or church site. The place is called Templetogher, a name that already signals religious antiquity, and the stream running through it on a south-south-west to north-north-east axis seems to have organised the whole settlement, sacred and secular alike, on either side of its banks.

The church and graveyard sit on the eastern bank of the stream, and the enclosure earthwork curves protectively just outside the graveyard to the west. Across the water, on the opposite bank, two further features add to the sense of accumulated devotion: a bullaun stone, a boulder with one or more cup-shaped hollows worn or carved into it, often associated with early Christian sites and sometimes used for grinding or ritual purposes, lies roughly 55 metres north-north-west of the church; and a holy well sits about 85 metres to the north. A third edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map from 1930 also marks a St. Patrick's Shrine approximately 140 metres to the north-north-east, though what stands there now is a statue of the saint with a water-filled trough, all set within a circular concrete surround put up in 1962. A nineteenth-century corn mill and kiln occupy the stream bank to the west of the church, a reminder that the same watercourse that sustained a place of worship also powered the practical business of the surrounding townland.