The combination, a kiln alongside a dedicated brick field, points to a small-scale but deliberate operation for manufacturing fired clay bricks, most likely during the eighteenth or nineteenth century when brick production spread into rural Ireland to meet demand from estate building and agricultural improvement. A brick kiln of this type would typically have been a simple updraught structure, sometimes little more than a domed or arched chamber cut into a bank or built from rough stone, in which unfired clay bricks were stacked and subjected to sustained heat. The associated brick field is where the raw clay would have been dug, worked, and shaped into green bricks before firing.