The church at Danesfort, tucked into the north-east angle of its graveyard in County Kilkenny, is a well-preserved rectangular structure whose round-headed west doorway, bellcote for a single bell, and finely detailed windows speak to a building that was once a functioning centre of parish life. What the Ordnance Survey letters of 1839 recorded, matter-of-factly, was that Colonel Wemys had effectively privatised the ruin, converting the nave into a family mausoleum and barring it accordingly.

The church was formerly the parish church of Dunfert, dedicated to St Michael the Archangel, whose feast falls on the 29th of September. Writing in 1905, the historian William Carrigan noted that it had been impropriated to the Prior and Canons Regular of St John's Abbey in Kilkenny, meaning the canons held the right to its tithes and revenues rather than a resident parish priest. The building itself retains considerable architectural interest. Light would once have entered through pointed two-light windows in the north and south walls, and through a pointed four-light window with switch-line tracery, a decorative interlacing stonework pattern, set into the east gable. Carrigan also noted a graveslab lying in the ground at the east end, close to where the altar once stood, a quiet remnant of the church's earlier devotional life before the Wemys family imposed their own arrangements on the space.