When surveyors visited in March 1983, they found only the foundations of a rectangular structure, oriented east to west in the traditional Christian manner, measuring roughly four metres in length and just under three metres wide. A doorway was still traceable in the western gable, but beyond that, nothing else was architecturally legible. What remained was less a ruin than a ghost of a building.

The church sits within the south-eastern quadrant of a wider ecclesiastical enclosure, a roughly bounded sacred precinct of the kind that was common in early medieval Ireland, where a circular or curvilinear earthwork defined the limits of a monastic or church settlement. Such enclosures often contained a church, a burial ground, and ancillary structures, and their boundaries could remain meaningful to local communities for centuries after any formal religious life had ceased. References in published sources from 1952 and 1967 confirm that the site was known and noted by earlier writers, though the building was already in poor condition by that point. When inspectors returned in June 2013, they found that the remains had deteriorated further, not simply through the passage of time, but because vegetation clearance within the enclosure had caused damage to the already fragile fabric of the church. The intention to tidy the site had left it worse off than the weeds had.