By the time surveyors returned to Salrock valley in 1898, what had been marked simply as "in Ruins" near the centre of a graveyard had been downgraded further still, to "Site of", a cartographic admission that the building had crossed some threshold beyond ruin into absence. Today, no visible trace of the structure survives at all. The graveyard itself remains, overgrown and crowded with burials, but the church it once contained has been absorbed completely into the ground.

The church was dedicated to St Rioch, also known as Roc, a saint associated with the early Christian tradition of the west of Ireland. It sits on the eastern side of the Salrock valley in County Galway, in the townland of Foher. The site is accompanied by two holy wells, which in Irish tradition were often venerated alongside a nearby church or saint's foundation, a pairing that frequently outlasted the architecture itself. One well lies just to the north-west of the former church, the other roughly sixty metres to the south-south-west. Holy wells of this kind were typically associated with healing, pilgrimage, or a saint's cult, and their continued presence here is often the most durable sign that a sacred site ever existed at a particular spot. The wells are recorded separately, and their survival beside an otherwise vanished church is a reminder of how unevenly time works on different kinds of monument.

The graveyard is still in use, or at least still densely occupied by older burials, which makes the absence of the church all the more quietly disorienting. A visitor would find grass, headstones, and the two wells nearby, but nothing above ground to indicate where the building once stood.