That absence is the point. The medieval building that once stood here has vanished so completely that it is not visible at ground level, and the Church of Ireland building that replaced it on the same site was itself demolished before 1900, gone from the revised six-inch Ordnance Survey map without trace. What remains is a burial ground carrying the accumulated stonework of several centuries, none of it quite where it was intended to be.

The story of this layered erasure comes partly from the Ordnance Survey Letters of 1839, in which it was observed that the then-Protestant church, estimated to be about fifty years old and therefore built around 1790, most likely occupied the site of a much earlier medieval predecessor. That earlier church did not survive into the nineteenth century in any structural sense, but its stones did. Several medieval architectural fragments have been reused in the graveyard as grave-markers, repurposed remnants of a building that no longer stands. Four graveslabs also survive in the graveyard, appearing on current evidence to date from the thirteenth or fourteenth century; these flat carved stones, typically used to mark the burial places of notable individuals during the medieval period, suggest the site was of some local significance. A small ancient cross identified around a kilometre to the south-east in the 1850s was proposed at the time as a possible candidate for the gable cross of the original medieval church, the carved stone that would have crowned one end of the roofline, perhaps displaced or moved at some point during the site's long sequence of rebuilding and clearance.