Lime kilns were the workhorses of pre-industrial agriculture and construction: limestone was packed into the funnel-shaped interior along with fuel, burned over many hours, and the resulting quicklime was spread on acidic fields to improve soil, or mixed into mortar for building. This one is largely intact in its basic form, though the years have not been entirely kind to it.

The structure is built from random-rubble limestone, the same material it was designed to process. The front elevation, facing east, retains a stone-arched recess roughly 1.8 metres high and 2.4 metres wide, though the rear of that recess has collapsed inward. Above and behind, the limestone-lined funnel, into which raw stone would have been loaded, is also partially collapsed. A loading ramp survives to the rear, the practical means by which workers would have tipped limestone and fuel down into the kiln from above. It is a straightforward industrial arrangement, common across rural Ireland from the eighteenth century onward, but no less interesting for that. The specific history of this particular kiln, including who built or operated it, is not recorded.