These kilns were once a familiar feature of the rural Irish landscape, used to burn limestone at high temperatures and produce quicklime, which farmers then spread across acidic soils to improve their fertility. This one dates from the mid-nineteenth century, a period when agricultural improvement was being actively promoted across Ireland, and lime burning was both a local industry and a practical necessity.

What survives here is enough to read the kiln's original form. The front elevation, facing south-east, retains a lintelled recess measuring roughly 1.6 metres high, 1.55 metres wide, and 2 metres deep, with sloping slabs running to the rear. This opening is the draw arch, the point at which the burned lime and ash would have been raked out once firing was complete. Above it, the stone-lined circular funnel, just under 1.65 metres in diameter, is where the limestone and fuel were loaded in alternating layers from the top. The whole structure is built into a hillside or bank, as was typical, so that carts could tip material directly into the pot from above while workers tended the fire below. The collapse the kiln has suffered over the past century and a half has left it reading more as a ruin than a working memory, but the proportions and the stonework still communicate how the thing once functioned.