[10] The earliest part of the church was built c. 1150–60, around the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland.

[11] The church was suppressed in the Reformation and the lands acquired by John Alan, Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

[13] However, the church is surrounded by a still-active graveyard; the earliest-dated grave still legible is that of a Nicholas Walsh, died 1711.

A round semicircular arch divides nave and chancel, and there is a gabled porch in the south end and a piscina in the east.

[16] The buildings are held up by temporary buttresses and the church is fenced off to avoid injury to the public.