Six metres tall and six metres wide at the front, it faces west and retains enough of its original fabric to reward a careful look. What catches the eye first is the brick-arched recess in the front face, now infilled but still clearly legible in the masonry, with a relieving arch, a secondary arch built above the main one to redirect the weight of the wall away from the opening below, sitting neatly overhead. The walls project outward on either side of the front face, a functional arrangement that would have helped workers load and tend the kiln from a stable platform.

Lime kilns like this one were a familiar feature of Irish estate and agricultural landscapes from the seventeenth century onwards. The basic process involved burning limestone at high temperature to produce quicklime, which was then used to sweeten acidic soils, make mortar, or whitewash buildings. A kiln of this scale, built within a demesne setting rather than a field boundary, suggests it served the needs of a working estate. The internal construction is telling: the funnel, the tapering central chamber through which the limestone was loaded from above, is brick-lined at its base where heat and chemical stress were most intense, then transitions to stone higher up where conditions were less demanding. That combination of materials speaks to a practical, locally-informed building tradition rather than any standardised design.