What remains is modest: a section of stone-lined funnel, standing roughly 0.4 metres high, and the remnants of a ramp on the southern side. It is the kind of structure that rewards a closer look, not for its grandeur, but for what it quietly explains about how the surrounding landscape was once worked.

Lime kilns were a common feature of the Irish rural economy, used to burn limestone at high temperatures to produce quicklime, which was then spread on fields to reduce soil acidity or mixed into mortar for construction. Building one inside a quarry was a practical choice: the rock face provided structural support and shelter, and the raw material was already close at hand. The ramp on the southern side would have allowed workers to bring limestone to the top of the kiln for loading, while the funnel drew the intense heat downward through the burning charge. That this kiln has since collapsed is not unusual; many were built for a specific local need and abandoned once that need passed, left to settle back into the ground over the following generations.