No wall, no foundation stone, no interpretive panel. The site of Templenascreen, known historically as Temple-nafcrin or the Shrine Church, has left no visible surface trace whatsoever, making it one of those places that exists almost entirely in documents rather than in the landscape.

The church sat within an early ecclesiastical enclosure and was associated with St Jarlath, the patron saint of Tuam and traditionally its first bishop. Writing in 1786, Mervyn Archdall noted that the remains of St Jarlath were preserved at Tuam in a chapel bearing a name close to "Temple-nafcrin". A shrine, in the medieval Irish context, typically refers to a decorated reliquary container, often of precious metal, used to house the bones or relics of a holy figure. In 1650, according to Kelly writing in the early twentieth century, a silver shrine of St Jarlath was discovered in the Shrine Church, which was by that point already unroofed and in ruin. The shrine was recovered but later lost again sometime in the nineteenth century, so even the physical object that gave the site its name has vanished. The site appears to have continued functioning through the late medieval period, possibly as a parish church, and as late as 1574 an "Abbey of the Scrin" appears in a list of monasteries, suggesting the place retained some institutional identity even as it declined.

What remains is essentially a location on a map. The Ordnance Survey six-inch sheets mark the position, and the early ecclesiastical enclosure within which it sat can still be traced as a broader feature of the urban layout of Tuam. For anyone walking Bishop Street today, the absence itself is the thing worth pausing over: a silver reliquary found in a ruined church, lost within two centuries of its rediscovery, on a site that has since been entirely absorbed into the town.