That is, in a sense, the whole story. A lime kiln once stood here, one of the small stone-built furnaces used across rural Ireland to burn limestone and produce quicklime for agricultural use, spreading it on acidic soils to improve fertility. It occupied what would have been a practical and prominent position, visible across the surrounding pasture, and presumably busy enough during its working life to earn a place on the Ordnance Survey maps of the nineteenth century.

The site appears clearly on the OS six-inch maps of both 1837 and 1883, marked as a limekiln. By the time the more detailed OS twenty-five-inch map was produced, it was recorded only as a small quarry, suggesting that the kiln structure itself had already disappeared or been dismantled, leaving behind the excavated hollow from which its raw material had been extracted. That quarry, too, has since vanished. Today there are no visible remains at ground level, and the ridge where it once stood has returned entirely to pasture.