There is nothing to see there now. The remains were cleared during land reclamation at some point in the past, and whatever once stood has been reduced, at most, to a scattering of earth and stones. The ecclesiastical remains are not visible at ground level. The site exists more as a memory in the landscape than as anything a visitor could point to.

The place was associated locally with St Carthach, also known as Carthage or Mo Chuda, an early medieval saint who founded the famous monastery at Lismore in Waterford in the seventh century. According to tradition recorded in the 1940s, this site in Coolclieve was his first foundation after departing the mother church at Kilganilander, making it an early and formative stop in a significant ecclesiastical career. The connection to St Carthach is reinforced by the fact that ecclesiastical remains roughly two and a half kilometres to the west, at Meanus, share the same local name. By the 1840s, the site was being described in Ordnance Survey notebooks as a remarkable rocky mountain called Parknacarriga, said to have formerly been a monastery, which suggests that even then its monastic character was something recalled rather than observed. The clearance of the physical remains, whenever it happened, erased almost everything, leaving only the field name and the local oral tradition to keep the identification alive.