The lime kiln here is substantial, its front face standing roughly eight metres high and over six metres wide, with a prominent arched recess at its base where the burnt lime was raked out. That arch, a little over two and a half metres tall and three metres wide, would have framed the draw hole through which workers extracted the finished product after the firing was complete. Flanking stone walls extend outward from the front to form a forecourt, a practical feature that helped contain the fuel and raw limestone brought in for burning, and perhaps offered some shelter during the loading process.

Lime kilns were once a fixture of the Irish countryside, used to convert limestone into quicklime by sustained burning at high temperatures. The quicklime produced was spread on fields to reduce soil acidity, and mixed with water to make mortar and limewash for construction and maintenance. A funnel, here measuring roughly 1.8 metres in diameter, sits at the top of the structure; this is the pot or bowl into which alternating layers of limestone and fuel, usually coal or wood, were packed before firing. The scale of this example suggests it served more than a single farmstead, possibly supplying lime across a wider area. Today it is heavily overgrown, the stonework embedded in whatever has taken root around and over it in the decades since it last operated.