Ardmore is built on a headland 7.5 km (4.7 mi) east of Youghal and the mouth of the Munster Blackwater.

[11] Originally they would have been painted in bright colours but are now bare stone and badly eroded by 800 years of wind and rain; some are still recognisable as Adam and Eve, the Adoration of the Magi, Judgment of Solomon and Archangel Michael weighing souls.

[12][13] A bishop blessing a warrior – possibly a Crusader image or the conversion of the Déisi Muman to Christianity – is also visible.

The church is recorded as being finished in 1203 when Máel Étaín Ua Duib Ratha died.

[citation needed] St Declan's stone oratory is floored in large flagstones and contains an empty grave recess; pilgrims used to remove earth from the hole.