The church dedicated to Saint Annin is a ruin in the fullest sense: roughly 14 metres long and just under 7 metres wide, built from undressed blocks of local limestone fitted together without the kind of careful shaping that finer ecclesiastical buildings received. By the time surveyors examined it in July 1983, both gables and the south wall were still standing, but the north wall had largely gone, with only its eastern section remaining upright, and the west end had collapsed entirely. A doorway survives near the south-west corner of the south wall, and a plain rectangular window sits in the east gable, modest openings that give the building a stripped, functional character common to rural medieval churches in the west of Ireland.

What complicates the picture is what stands just a metre to the south of the church: the mortuary chapel of the Martin family, a name long associated with landed power in Connaught. Inside that chapel is the tomb of Major Poppelton, dated 1848. The name Poppelton is historically associated with the British officer Thomas Poppleton, who served as Napoleon Bonaparte's orderly officer during the former emperor's captivity on Saint Helena, though whether this Major Poppelton is directly connected to that figure is not established here. The juxtaposition of a medieval Irish church and a mid-Victorian military tomb, separated by little more than a pace, gives the graveyard an accidental density of history. When the site was re-examined in March 2010, the heavy ivy that had covered both buildings had died back following a local clean-up, leaving the stonework more legible and the relationship between the two structures easier to read.