The convent chapel, rather than being demolished, was absorbed into the hospital complex as a ward and later repurposed as a stores room, which is perhaps one of the more mundane fates a sacred space can meet.

The convent was established in 1688 under a Royal Charter granted by King James II to the Benedictine nuns, an order following the Rule of Saint Benedict, which had governed monastic communities across Europe since the sixth century. The foundation was short-lived in their hands, however. Shortly after its establishment, the Dominican nuns took possession of the site and undertook substantial rebuilding works, so that whatever the Benedictines had originally constructed was considerably altered before the century was out. The building continued to function as a convent until 1811, when it was incorporated into the Richmond Surgical Hospital, one of the major medical institutions of Georgian Dublin. The chapel was repurposed first as the so-called Chapel Ward and later as storage space, layers of institutional use accumulating over the original religious fabric. In 1994, test excavations on the site uncovered the much-disturbed remains of the original Benedictine structure along with evidence of several later building phases, confirming that the physical history of the place was considerably more complex than the surface suggested.

The Richmond Hospital complex, on North Brunswick Street, is no longer an acute hospital and the site has passed through various uses over the years. There is nothing publicly visible to mark the convent's presence; no signage draws attention to the buried remains or to the converted chapel. Anyone with an interest in the site is essentially working from the historical record rather than from anything that can be seen from the street. The 1994 excavation report, referenced in the work of archaeologist Linzi Simpson, is the most detailed account of what survives below ground, and for those willing to chase down the archaeology, it offers a clearer picture of what the excavations actually found beneath what had become, by then, a thoroughly altered and layered site.