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Remains of three-bay single-storey former Catholic church, built c. 1500, having bellcote over the west gable end. Later in use as a Church of Ireland church and altered c. 1622 and 1729-33. Now ruinous (out of use since c. 1840). Pitched roof, now collapsed\removed. Coursed rubble limestone walls with flush roughly tooled (punch dressed) cut limestone quoins to corners; formerly roughcast rendered. Segmental-headed window openings to east and west elevations. Remains of former window, c. 1500, to the south Segmental-headed door opening to south elevation. Some lime render remaining to interior. Wall press at the east end of the south elevation. Cross-inscribed stone (RMP DG053-033005-) built into church wall. Graveyard to site (on rectangular-plan) having mainly nineteenth and twentieth century memorials. Site bounded by rubble stone boundary walls. Gateway to south-east corner of site having a pair of coursed rubble stone gate piers (on square-plan) with double-leaf wrought-iron gates to south. Located close to a bend in River Swilly, and to the south-east of Letterkenny. Yew trees to site. Modern cemetery adjacent to the west.
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