It is listed as a monument, assigned a place, and then left largely undescribed, which is itself a kind of curiosity. Ireland has hundreds of such sites, medieval or early Christian remains that were noted, mapped, and catalogued before the fuller work of documentation could catch up with them.

Roevehagh is a small rural townland in east Galway, a part of the country that saw considerable early ecclesiastical activity in the early medieval period, when small stone churches and enclosures were established across the landscape, often associated with local saints or monastic communities long since forgotten. Churches of this type, sometimes called early medieval oratories or simple nave-and-chancel structures, were frequently built without mortar, relying on careful dry-stone construction that could survive, in ruined form, for over a thousand years. Without more specific detail on record, the precise form, date, and dedication of the Roevehagh church remain unclear, and speculation would be doing the site a disservice.