The site at Loughane Beg is modest in scale, an irregular patch roughly twenty metres north to south and eight metres east to west, marked at the surface by a scatter of stones rather than any enclosing wall or obvious boundary. A few upright grave markers remain, though the southern side is actively eroding into the water. There is something quietly unsettling about a burial place that is itself disappearing, the ground giving way beneath the dead.

The site is recorded as an irregular area defined largely by what remains visible at the surface, which suggests that whatever formal boundary or structure may once have existed has already been lost, either to time, to coastal erosion, or to both. Coastal burial grounds of this kind are not unusual along the west Cork shoreline; small, often unconsecrated plots were used for centuries to inter those who could not, for various reasons, be buried in a parish churchyard. Unbaptised children, shipwreck victims, and others outside the formal structures of the Church were sometimes laid in such marginal places, close to the edge of the land. The upright markers at Loughane Beg indicate deliberate, marked burial rather than accidental accumulation, though who is interred here and when the ground was last used remains unrecorded.