What makes this particular spot unusual is the density of what survives within a relatively compact area: an oval enclosure, a leacht (a low cairn or pile of stones associated with veneration or commemoration), a gable-shrine, a holed stone, and numerous uninscribed grave-markers. Taken together, these features point to the site's use as a ceallúnach, an unenclosed or informally enclosed burial ground, often associated with unbaptised children or with communities outside the formal church system, though the precise community that used this one remains unnamed.

The enclosure is not an isolated feature. A pillar stone is set into the outer face of its southern boundary, a detail that suggests deliberate placement rather than casual reuse. To the northwest and north, angular and curvilinear stretches of earthen and stone banks extend beyond the enclosure, and within a large rectangular enclosure at the northwest sit two rectangular house sites, each measuring five metres by four metres internally. Some of the curvilinear bank sections to the east may represent the foundations of further structures, though this has not been confirmed. A second ceallúnach lies a short distance to the east, which hints that this part of Killoluaig carried a sustained significance across some period of time, even if that period cannot yet be precisely defined. The site was surveyed as part of A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan's archaeological survey of the Iveragh Peninsula, published by Cork University Press in 1996.