Corn-drying kilns were a practical necessity in Ireland's damp climate, used to dry harvested grain before it could be milled or stored. They were built in considerable numbers across the country, but finding a cluster of them together, in good enough condition to map and measure, is rather less common.

The kilns at Flemingtown came to light during pre-development investigations carried out in 2005. The most complete of the features had a perfectly circular chamber measuring 2.60 metres in diameter and surviving to a depth of between 0.05 and 0.24 metres, with a flue or passage exiting on the western side. Alongside the kilns, excavators also recovered the upper stone of a rotary quern, the hand-powered grinding device used to process grain into flour or meal. The two find types together, kiln and quern stone, suggest a small but self-contained grain-processing operation on this spot. The findings were subsequently published by Bolger in 2009 and the site record was compiled by Geraldine Stout.

Flemingtown is a townland in north County Dublin, and like many such places its archaeology surfaced only because construction work prompted a formal investigation beforehand. The kilns are no longer visible above ground; what remains is the documentary and photographic record of the excavation rather than any standing structure. For anyone tracing this kind of rural agricultural archaeology, the Bolger 2009 publication is the practical starting point, and the site record itself offers the measured detail that fieldwork produced before the ground was disturbed again.