At Ballymoat, a ruined nave and chancel church built from uncoursed rubble sits on a gentle south-east-facing slope, enclosed by the kind of tidy modern cemetery wall you might find anywhere. What sets this site apart is what that modern wall replaced, or rather failed to replace entirely: roughly one-third of a circular earthen enclosure still survives, running along the southern and western sides as a low bank about three metres wide and one metre high, with a steep natural slope reinforcing the eastern edge. Circular ecclesiastical enclosures of this kind are associated with early medieval religious foundations in Ireland, where the sacred boundary, known as a termon, defined both spiritual and legal sanctuary. The northern portion of this original enclosure has been lost, most likely cleared away at some point when the graveyard was extended or formalised.

The church within is a simple two-cell structure, the nave and chancel arrangement being the standard form for rural Irish parish churches from the medieval period onwards. Built from rubble stonework without the dressed or carefully layered courses you would find in more ambitious buildings, it reads as a modest, local effort rather than anything commissioned by a wealthy patron. The graveyard itself retains several headstones dating from the early to mid-eighteenth century, which suggests continued use of the site well into the post-medieval period even as the church fabric fell out of regular use. The combination of the partially surviving early enclosure and these later headstones makes the site something of a layered document, with different centuries quietly coexisting on the same slope.