The building itself is gone, leaving only its name and the ground it once consecrated, a pattern common enough across rural Ireland but no less affecting for that. Sites like this one, where a structure has vanished but the burial ground persists, tend to accumulate centuries of use long after the original community that gathered there has dispersed or diminished beyond recognition.

The church was known in the anglicised record as Templeen, a direct phonetic rendering of the Irish diminutive. Such small early or medieval churches were a feature of the Irish landscape from at least the early Christian period onward, often serving scattered rural parishes or functioning as private or monastic oratories before the consolidation of parish structures under the reformed church. The graveyard at Gortacloghane belongs to this broader tradition of sites where the ecclesiastical fabric has not survived but the memory of sanctified ground has kept the place in use as a burial site across generations.