The Women's Church, Templenaman, is now reduced to a low right-angled arrangement of stone blocks barely protruding through sod and storm-tossed rubble, a few metres from the water's edge. What makes this particularly striking is not merely the ruin but the pace of the loss; within living memory of the historical record, a complete church stood here, and the Atlantic has since taken nearly all of it.

Inishglora was the site of an early medieval monastery traditionally attributed to St Brendan the Navigator, whose foundation is placed in the sixth century. The island carried a small cluster of ecclesiastical remains: St Brendan's Chapel and the Men's Church, known as Templenafear, sit roughly 25 metres to the north-east, and a holy well lies 10 metres to the west. Templenaman, the Women's Church, occupied the south-east edge of this grouping. When John O'Donovan visited the island in 1838, as part of the Ordnance Survey's broader mapping and antiquarian work, the church was still upstanding. He measured a doorway of 1.6 metres high and 0.8 metres wide, and noted that while the building lacked what he called the characteristic features of primitive Irish churches, it was nonetheless several centuries old and that local tradition firmly identified it as a nunnery. By 1904, T. J. Westropp recorded its dimensions as roughly 24 feet by 12 feet, with walls 3 feet thick. A photograph taken in 1894 by Jane Shackleton of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland provides a further glimpse: the west gable and north wall still stood, built from large horizontal blocks and slabs intermixed with smaller stones. Visible in the gable was a rectangular wall recess or cupboard, its sides formed from single upright slabs and roofed with a single horizontal slab, a small constructional detail that the photograph preserves long after the wall itself was lost. The south and east walls had already collapsed by the time Shackleton's camera recorded the scene.

What remains today, the low stone footings at the storm beach margin, may represent the north-east corner of the church. The site slopes southward for about three metres to the water's edge, which makes plain why the erosion has been so thorough. The church is a National Monument in state ownership, but there is nothing upstanding left to protect, only the outline of what the sea has not yet reached.