It is the kind of structure that most people pass without registering, yet it represents a technology that shaped the Irish countryside for centuries: lime kilns were used to burn limestone at high temperatures, producing quicklime that farmers spread on acidic soils to improve their fertility, and that builders used in mortar and whitewash.

This particular kiln is built in the familiar pattern of the type. Random rubble walls, now partially collapsed, encase an earthen core, and at the front a stone-arched recess, just under two metres high and roughly two metres wide, opens to the west. Sloping slabs line the rear of this recess, and above it a ledge was left to carry a lean-to shelter, probably used to store fuel or finished lime and to keep workers out of the weather. Behind the front face, a stone-lined circular funnel descends into the body of the kiln, where limestone and fuel were loaded from above and burned together. A disused trackway still connects the rear of the structure to an early twentieth century road to the south, a quiet reminder that this was once a working place with a regular flow of carts and materials.