The modern graveyard wall, measuring roughly 30 to 35 metres across, appears to trace the footprint of an ancient ecclesiastical enclosure, though little evidence of this earlier boundary survives today. The circular pattern breaks on the northern side where the graveyard was extended and a new church built around 1788, after the original chapel had already fallen into disrepair.

The old church itself, which measures just 5.6 by 9.15 metres internally, tells a story of changing fortunes in this rural Irish community. Historical records from 1622 describe it as a small chapel, but by the mid-17th century it had already tumbled into ruins and was never restored. What remains today are walls built from split stone, rubble and mortar, with the eastern gable still standing at 2.4 metres high. A wide central window dominates this wall, though its jambs and head have long since collapsed, whilst a smaller, partially blocked window with a surviving round-headed rear arch can be found at the eastern end of the south wall.

The architectural details offer tantalising clues about when this church might have been constructed. The flat-headed western doorway, now missing its wooden lintel, features splayed ingoings, and there’s evidence throughout the structure that both windows and doors once held timber frames. The round-headed rear arch and the notably wide 1.15-metre opening of the eastern window suggest this wasn’t a particularly ancient building; more likely it dates from the late medieval period or perhaps even the early 17th century, not long before it was recorded as already being in ruins. Today, these weathered walls stand as a reminder of the ebb and flow of religious life in rural Donegal, where communities built, abandoned, and rebuilt their places of worship as circumstances demanded.