It is not much to look at, structurally speaking. But pressed into service as a simple grave-marker along the north edge of the old church footprint is the lower portion of a medieval graveslab, complete with a raised fleur-de-lis terminal, the decorative lily-like motif common in medieval funerary carving. The rectangular graveyard enclosing the site, defined by masonry walls and measuring roughly fifty metres east to west, is still legible in the landscape, even if the building at its centre has been reduced to almost nothing.

The church was the parish church of Maudlintown, a placename that carries within it the memory of Mary Magdalene, and it was directly connected to a leper hospital that once stood nearby. In the fifteenth century, the whole complex was granted to the Knights Hospitaller of St John at Kilmainham in Dublin, a military-religious order that administered properties and hospitals across medieval Ireland. About 150 metres to the north-east lies the site of St Mary Magdalene's Well, where patterns, the traditional Irish devotional gatherings combining prayer and communal festivity held on a saint's feast day, were celebrated on the 22nd of July each year until around 1790. The cessation of those gatherings, recorded by O'Flanagan in 1933, marks one of the many quiet closures of a devotional world that once gave places like this a sustained, living purpose.