Rather than the conventional nave-and-chancel arrangement running east to west, this building is laid out in a T-shape, with the stem of the T extending eastward. You enter through that eastern stem, passing beneath a bellcote that rises from a narrow stone breakfront above the door, with a window positioned directly overhead. The interior is lit by slender pointed lancets fitted with switchline tracery, a late Gothic decorative technique in which window lights branch and curve back on themselves in flowing patterns. At the western end, the eye is drawn to a fine classical reredos, the ornamental screen or panel that stands behind an altar, which bears a close resemblance to one that formerly stood in the church at Ovens, a few miles away in County Cork.

The building appears to date from the early nineteenth century, and its form and detail place it firmly in the tradition of modest rural Catholic churches built across Ireland during the decades following Catholic Emancipation, when congregations could finally construct permanent places of worship more openly. A nearby church, built in 1843, shares a strikingly similar character, suggesting the two may share an architect or builder, or at least a common pattern being circulated through mid Cork at the time. A low gabled sacristy occupies the western end of the building, tucked beneath the same roofline that shelters the main body of the church. The overall effect is modest but considered, the kind of careful provincial building that tends to be overlooked precisely because it does not announce itself loudly.