At Killoughter in County Wicklow, the remnants of a small church and its associated graveyard occupy a gentle west-facing slope, the kind of quietly marginal ground that early ecclesiastical sites often favoured.

By the time the Ordnance Survey teams were compiling their field letters in 1838 to 1840, the church was already well into ruin. Their observations, later published by O'Flanagan in 1928, recorded what remained: sections of the south wall and the east gable were still standing, a doorway could be traced in the west gable, a fragment of window survived in the east gable, and two small windows punctuated the south wall. The rectangular graveyard, measuring roughly fifty metres on its north-west to south-east axis and thirty-five metres across, was noted as no longer in use. The fact that it had fallen out of use before the surveyors arrived suggests the site had been abandoned for some considerable time, though the presence of that solitary eighteenth-century headstone sheltering within the east gable indicates that burials were still taking place there within living memory of people the surveyors might themselves have spoken to.