It does not appear on any edition of the Ordnance Survey maps, which means it slipped through the standard processes of cartographic record entirely, leaving it to local knowledge rather than official documentation to keep its existence known.

Lime kilns were once a familiar feature of the Irish countryside, used to burn limestone at high temperatures to produce quicklime, which was then spread on fields to reduce soil acidity and improve agricultural yields. They were practical, often modest structures, and many were built by estate owners or tenant farmers close to the land they served. This particular example, built of stone and now in a ruinous state, sits roughly sixty metres east of Whitehall House, on the western edge of a mudflat and largely screened by encroaching vegetation. Its proximity to the house suggests it was associated with whatever agricultural operation the estate once supported, though the absence of any map record makes it difficult to say much more about its history or the period in which it was built or last used.