It is easy to mistake for a collapsed field boundary or a forgotten retaining wall, but the arched recess cut into its face gives it away. This is a limekiln, a structure once central to agricultural life across rural Ireland, in which limestone was burned at high temperature to produce quicklime for spreading on acidic soils and for use in mortar.

Built sometime in the mid to late nineteenth century, the kiln was constructed directly into the natural slope of the land, a common technique that allowed carts to tip limestone in from above while fuel and finished lime were managed from the lower, western face. That front wall, facing west and now heavily overgrown, measures four metres high and four and a half metres wide. At its centre sits the arched recess, roughly one and a half metres tall and almost as wide, with sloping slabs set into the rear to direct material downward. Above, a stone-lined funnel nearly two metres in diameter would have held the raw limestone and fuel during firing. The rear wall survives to a height of one and a half metres. The small stream running nearby to the west may well have been a practical consideration when the site was first chosen.

The kiln sits openly at the road junction, though the overgrowth means its full dimensions are not immediately obvious from the road. The arched recess in the front wall is the clearest indicator of what the structure is, and looking upward from that point gives some sense of how the funnel above would have been loaded and managed during operation.