And yet that fragment carries a quiet persistence. Set within an early ecclesiastical enclosure, the kind of defined sacred boundary that often predates the church building itself by centuries, this remnant of a rectangular east-west aligned structure is one of those places where absence is almost as informative as presence.

The two surviving windows are probably thirteenth century in date, according to Professor Rynne, and their round-headed form is consistent with Romanesque-influenced work of that period in the west of Ireland. When the Ordnance Survey Letters were compiled in the nineteenth century, recorded later in O'Flanagan's 1927 edition, the church was considerably more legible. At that time a northern wall measuring over thirteen metres was still standing, along with the entire east gable, which contained two lancet windows of cut stone. Lancet windows, narrow and pointed at the top, were a common feature of Irish parish churches from the thirteenth century onward. The OS Letters described those lost windows as being of the same kind as the ones that survive today, suggesting the building had a modest but coherent architectural character throughout. Between the mid-nineteenth century and now, the north wall and east gable have disappeared entirely, leaving only the south wall to hold the record of what once stood here.