In County Wexford, that question has never been satisfactorily answered. The townland name itself offers the first clue: Taulaght derives from the Old Irish tamhlaght, meaning burial ground, a word that appears across Ireland wherever early Christian communities interred their dead, often beside a church or chapel long since vanished.

When foundations were being laid for what local pronunciation apparently rendered as Thorla House, workers unearthed skeletal remains alongside an object described as a piscina. The term covers a range of stone basins used in ecclesiastical settings, from a piscina proper (a wall niche with a drain, used for rinsing communion vessels) to a stoup for holy water, a font for baptism, or a bullaun stone, a rounded boulder with one or more cup-shaped hollows associated with early Irish religious sites. The object was transferred to the Roman Catholic church of Saint Leonards, roughly 1.2 kilometres to the north, though its precise identity was already becoming uncertain. A mortar now held at Saint Leonards is likely to be the same item, its original character obscured by the passage of time and the indifference of record-keeping. Samuel Lewis, writing in 1837, and Philip Hore, writing in the early twentieth century, both noted these finds and Lewis went a step further, proposing that a church called Midway once stood here, so named because the site lies approximately halfway between the medieval settlements of Clonmines and Tintern. It is a plausible piece of topographical reasoning, but no historical source has ever confirmed that such a church existed.

The house itself, positioned just below the crest of a south-facing slope, has since been demolished and removed without trace. What remains is a townland whose name announces a burial ground, a displaced stone of uncertain liturgical origin, and a proposed church that may never have existed at all.