They survey the roofless interior with the particular indifference of medieval stonework, presiding over a space that was once a place of Carmelite prayer and is now given over largely to the dead.

The building sits at the north-east corner of an early ecclesiastical enclosure, positioned at the far eastern end of the graveyard, and its origins belong to the fourteenth century. It was founded as a Carmelite monastery, according to the historian record, by one of the de Burgos, the powerful Anglo-Norman family whose influence spread widely across Connacht during the medieval period. The Carmelites, a mendicant order with roots in the Holy Land, established a number of such houses across Ireland under noble patronage during this period. The rectangular church that survives measures roughly 16.5 metres in length and 8 metres in width externally, and despite the total loss of its north wall, the remaining three walls still stand close to their original height. The south wall retains a flat-headed doorway fitted with a bar-slot, the groove cut to hold a securing bar across the door, as well as traces of a window at its midpoint. The east gable opens with a large window ope, and high in the west gable a small rectangular window hints at a former internal loft at that end of the building. The three burial vaults built against the east gable and south wall are a later addition to the interior, the largest of them marked by those two carved heads that lend the space its quietly unsettling quality.