Archaeological finds show that this area of Point was occupied by farming people in the Neolithic period up to 6000 years ago. Midden deposits containing winkle, limpet and mussel shells, fishbones, animal bones, and stone tools have been exposed along the shore – evidence that people have built houses, cooked food and worked here over several millenia before Eaglais na h-Aoidhe was built.

In 1937, evidence of later occupants was found in a disused sandpit close to the Ui Church. This was the remains of a small late Iron Age stone building with a hearth on an earth floor, associated with pottery and animal bones and traces of iron objects.

In 2014, the discovery of a saddle quern stone in a large hollow to the west of the Church led to a small archaeological excavation.  Fragments of pottery and quartz and stone tools were uncovered which, along with the lack of domestic waste, suggested that this was a type of processing or work site.