Four fleur-de-lys finials, each presumably once fixed to a corner spire of the church above, now sit at ground level near the south-west corner of the building, alongside a cylindrical block of granite whose original purpose is no longer obvious. There is also a small lozenge-shaped trough, roughly forty centimetres long and only about eight centimetres deep at its hollow, which may have functioned as a stoup, the shallow basin used to hold holy water at a church entrance. Together these pieces suggest a building that once had a degree of architectural ambition, even if what stands today gives little indication of it.

The ruined structure itself dates from the early nineteenth century, and no physical evidence of any earlier church has survived above ground. That earlier building is not entirely a matter of conjecture, however. Liam Price, writing in 1946, identified this as the site of an early ecclesiastical church and enclosure, the latter being a large oval earthwork within which the church and its graveyard sit, slightly south of centre. Such enclosures, defined by a curving boundary bank or ditch, are a recognised feature of early Irish ecclesiastical sites, often indicating that a place of worship was established here long before any standing masonry was raised. The graveyard reinforces the sense of long use; it contains a substantial number of mid-eighteenth-century headstones, pointing to a community that was burying its dead here well before the present ruin was built. The site occupies the north-eastern edge of a ridge, with a short steep drop to the north and east, a position that would have made the enclosure both visible and defensible in an earlier era.