Nothing of it remains above ground today; the site is occupied by a quarry office. The only reason we know the place existed at all is that the 1840 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map thought to mark it, annotating the spot "Site of Chapel Hogan" as though even then it was already a memory rather than a building.

When Ordnance Survey fieldworkers passed through in 1838 to 1840, they recorded only that there was "an old little burial place at the south end of the strand in the Townland of Bigrock; it has no name." The name Chapel Hogan came later, through the work of the historian Price, writing in 1967, who connected the unnamed burial ground with the annotated map site. By that point, Price reported, a mound with a small piece of masonry had already been levelled. He was candid about the name itself: he could not explain it, but he offered a careful hypothesis. Baltinglass Abbey, a Cistercian house in County Wicklow, had owned a salt-pan at Arklow, adjacent to lands granted to the Cistercians of Furness. A salt-pan was a shallow coastal operation for evaporating seawater to produce salt, exactly the kind of industrial concern a medieval abbey might run near a shoreline. Price suggested the chapel may have served that salt-pan, functioning as a working chapel for the abbey's interests on the coast. He also pointed to a place called Killogan, or Kill Hogan as it was locally pronounced, a burial ground in the parish of Clonmelsh in County Carlow, lands that Baltinglass Abbey also held. The echo of the name across two sites connected to the same institution is suggestive, if not conclusive.

Two holy wells survive in the immediate area: Lady's Well lies roughly 130 metres to the south-south-west, and St. Patrick's Well about 280 metres to the south-south-east. Their presence clusters this small coastal strip with the kind of sacred geography that often accumulated around early ecclesiastical sites, even when the buildings themselves are long gone.