The arrangement gives the structure an oddly double life: part working outbuilding, part relic of an agricultural process that was once central to Irish rural economies.

Lime kilns were stone-built furnaces used to burn limestone at high temperatures, producing quicklime that farmers spread across fields to reduce soil acidity. This example retains much of its original form. The front elevation faces south and preserves a lintelled recess, roughly two metres high, one and a half metres wide, and nearly two metres deep, with sloping slabs set to the rear. Above it, a stone-lined funnel, about 1.7 metres in diameter, marks where limestone and fuel would have been loaded from above and the burnt lime drawn out below. That funnel is now infilled. To the north, an earthen ramp, used to bring material up to the charging hole at the top of the kiln, survives in a damaged state and has been planted over with conifers, blurring the outline of what was once a deliberately engineered approach to the structure.