There has not been one for the better part of two centuries. Yet the outline of what stood here can be reconstructed with some precision, and the absence itself tells a particular kind of story about Catholic worship in Ireland during the decades immediately after the Penal Laws, when the right to build and gather openly was newly restored.

A manuscript map held in the National Library of Ireland, dated 1803, shows the building as a T-shaped chapel. As a post-Penal church, meaning one constructed after the worst of the legal restrictions on Catholic practice had eased, it was probably built around 1783 or so, making it a relatively young structure at the time of that map. By 1839, when the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the area, the building had grown considerably in the cartographic record, or perhaps had been extended; it appears there as a cross-shaped structure roughly 40 metres east to west and 30 metres north to south, labelled simply as the Old R. C. Chapel. The present St. James' Catholic church was built between 1838 and 1843, and once that was complete, the earlier chapel was demolished so thoroughly that nothing of the structure itself now remains above ground.

What does remain are two granite crosses with expanded ends, originally set into the gables of the chapel, which now stand within the graveyard. The graveyard itself survives intact, bounded by masonry walls and running to a curved perimeter on its south-western side. The crosses are modest objects, easy to overlook, but they are the only physical remnants of a building that once served as the first dedicated Roman Catholic church in this part of County Wexford.