Lime kilns were once a familiar fixture of the Irish agricultural landscape, used to burn limestone at high temperatures to produce quicklime, which farmers spread on acidic soils to improve fertility. This one is more substantial than many that survive: the front face measures 5.5 metres across, and the arched recess, framed with carefully cut voussoirs, the wedge-shaped stones that hold an arch in compression, stands 2.1 metres high and runs nearly two metres deep.

The kiln's construction shows some care and investment. Voussoirs of cut stone rather than rough rubble suggest it was built to last, probably serving a local farming community that depended on a reliable supply of lime. The top of the structure is enclosed by a wall, and an opening in the north wall has been blocked with stones at some point, possibly to consolidate the structure or simply as a practical measure once the kiln fell out of use. The interior is now overgrown, which is a common fate for these structures once agricultural practice moved on and imported fertilisers made on-site lime burning redundant across most of rural Ireland during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.