What makes it quietly arresting is the degree to which the land has reasserted itself: the enclosure is now heavily overgrown with scrub, the kind of slow botanical reclamation that tends to swallow sites once regular use and maintenance fall away.

The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, surveyed in 1839, records the site clearly enough. At that time, a rectangular church stood roughly in the centre of the enclosure, which measured approximately 55 metres east to west and 40 metres north to south. The pairing of church and graveyard within a defined boundary was a common arrangement in medieval and early modern Irish ecclesiastical sites, and the rectangular plan of both church and enclosure here is fairly typical of that tradition. Whether the church was already ruinous by the time the surveyors came through, or whether it still retained some structural form, the map does not say. What it does confirm is that by the mid-nineteenth century this was a recorded and recognisable place, even if it was already receding from active use.