Conventual Franciscans, a branch of the order who lived in larger, more settled communities than their stricter counterparts, established a house here that endured through the medieval period and, it seems, well beyond the upheaval of the Reformation.

The topographer Samuel Lewis noted in 1837 that the friary had existed until the Reformation and that some remains of the old church were still visible. What makes the site quietly puzzling is a detail from an inquisition carried out in 1608, decades after the Reformation had nominally dissolved such institutions in Ireland. That survey found the friary still held property, valued at the modest sum of six shillings, suggesting the community or its structures lingered into the post-Reformation period rather than disappearing abruptly. The precise circumstances of its eventual dissolution are not recorded, but the six-shilling valuation speaks to an institution reduced to near nothing, clinging on at the margins of an era that had little use for it.

Today the ruined church, enclosed within its graveyard close to the confluence of the Pollagh, Glore, and Gwestion Rivers, is all that remains of the religious foundation. No other visible structures from the friary survive above ground.