Not a fallen arch, not a dressed stone, not a scrap of wall. The site at Kilteany is, in the most literal sense, an absence.

Samuel Lewis, writing in his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland in 1837, noted the existence of remains at what he called Kiltairn, recording both an ancient abbey and an old parish church on the riverbank. His entry suggests the ruins were visible to him, or at least to his informants, at that point in the nineteenth century. Whatever survived into Lewis's era has since vanished entirely, absorbed into the landscape or cleared away in the intervening years. The parish church he also mentioned fares no better in the archaeological record. What was once a recognisable ecclesiastical complex beside the Owenmore has left nothing for the eye to find.