A church that has left no trace above ground can be a peculiar thing to seek out, yet the absence itself becomes the point. In a pasture on a low plateau in Middlequarter, County Waterford, the ground holds the ghost of a rectangular building, roughly fifteen metres across, set within a graveyard enclosure of some eighty metres east to west and twenty-five metres north to south. The 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map still shows it, faintly, bounded to the south by a lane that ran east to west. Today, nothing breaks the surface.

The site carries a name that reaches back considerably further than any cartographic record. The Reverend Patrick Power, writing in his 1907 study of the place names of the Decies, the old territory covering much of County Waterford, identified this as Cill Lasrach, meaning Lasser's Church, cill being the Irish term for a small early ecclesiastical enclosure or church, often associated with an early Christian founder or saint. The personal name Lasser points to a female saint, though the notes offer no further biographical detail. The nearby townland of Killoseragh, just to the west, carries the same root, its anglicised form preserving the memory of both the place and its patron in the landscape long after the building itself vanished. It is the kind of quiet persistence that place names manage when physical structures cannot.