The ruins of this old church are located near Streedagh. Very little is left of the church, which may be linked to the monastic settlement on Inishmurray Island.
Captain Francisco de Cuellar was a survivor of the one of the three Spanish Armada ships that were wrecked at Streedagh in 1588. He mentions in a letter composed in Antwerp on his journey back to Spain that he reached a church close to where he had been washed ashore. He recounted that the church had been burned and that inside he saw twelve Spaniards hanging, hung he said by, “Lutheran English”. It is likely that Staid, being so close to the area of the Streedagh shipwrecks is the church de Cuellar describes.