That church is a Gothic style building erected under the patronage of the Board of First Fruits, a body established in the eighteenth century to fund the construction of Church of Ireland churches and glebe houses across the country. The Board was dissolved in 1833, making its buildings a fairly reliable marker of a particular era of rural Protestant church-building in Ireland.

The oldest grave slabs on the site date to around 1870, which suggests the burial ground came into active use some decades after the church itself was likely built. A small single-storey structure sits to the south-east of the church and serves as a meeting house. Its history is easy to pin down within a narrow window: it does not appear on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, surveyed in 1841, but it is clearly shown on the later edition of 1908 to 1909. That gap of roughly sixty or seventy years is all that can be said with confidence about when it was added, though the meeting house function points to continued congregational use of the site well into the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.