That detail alone gives a particular texture to a site that might otherwise read as a straightforward medieval ruin. The slabs sit inside a church that was already old when they were cut, and the graveyard surrounding it continued receiving the dead for another two centuries after that.

The site sits on an east-facing slope in undulating countryside, flanked by a ringwork to the west and a tower house to the east, a clustering of monument types that suggests long and layered occupation of this stretch of Tipperary. The church itself, a nave and chancel arrangement now heavily covered in ivy, was already part of an established ecclesiastical landscape by 1302, when it appeared in the taxation records of the Diocese of Cashel. The most architecturally curious element is a barrel-vaulted tower added onto the eastern end of the chancel, apparently built at the same time as the chancel itself. It has since been truncated to a single storey, but its east gable still holds a twin-light flat-headed window of seventeenth-century date. An offset running along the interior side-walls of the tower is thought to have supported the wooden centering used to construct the vault, a temporary timber frame over which the stone arch was built before the mortar set. The chancel arch itself, made with cut-stone voussoirs, dates from the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century and appears once to have supported a wooden element, possibly a window head. The nave walls have largely collapsed to footings, with nothing surviving on the west gable. Elsewhere in the graveyard, a water spout, possibly salvaged from the tower during one phase of its deterioration, has been set into the ground in the western sector, a small repurposing that is easy to overlook among the eighteenth and nineteenth-century headstones arranged around it.