Known in Irish as a calluragh, this type of burial place served communities across Ireland during centuries when Catholic doctrine denied church burial to infants who died before baptism. The site at An Baile Beag is modest in scale, a platform of stones measuring roughly 13 metres by 8 metres and no more than 40 centimetres high, yet its quiet presence on the hillside carries the full weight of that practice.

What makes this particular site curious is that it is not alone in its field. A second calluragh lies approximately 50 metres to the west, and the two occupy the same enclosure. The earlier Ordnance Survey mapping showed the surviving eastern site as roughly semi-circular, divided into two portions by a north-south field wall; by the time of the second edition survey, its outline had shifted to a more oval form. The western portion of the original site no longer survives. A nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey Name Book entry describes what may be one of the two as 'a small square plot about one chain long and the same broad composed chiefly of stones', though it is not clear which of the pair the description was meant to record. The site is documented in J. Cuppage's 1986 archaeological survey of the Corca Dhuibhne peninsula, which remains a foundational reference for the archaeology of the Dingle region.