Covered in scrub, measuring roughly thirteen metres from north to south and seven from east to west, and rising just a metre above the surrounding ground, it is not especially dramatic. What makes it curious is the question it raises: is this a feature of archaeological significance, or simply the accumulated remains of a working kiln, left to grass and bramble?\n\nA lime kiln, for those unfamiliar with the term, was a common feature of the rural Irish landscape, a stone-built structure used to burn limestone and produce quicklime for agricultural use, particularly for improving acidic soils. The 1839 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map marks precisely such a kiln in this area of Ballykeerogemore. By the time the 1940 edition of the same map was produced, that label had vanished, replaced only by a generic indication of a mound. The structure itself, an oval scrub-covered form with a trench of roughly five metres wide and half a metre deep cut into its eastern side, does match what the collapsed remains of a lime kiln might look like after long neglect. But the record stops short of certainty, noting only that it may be the remains of one. That careful hedging is itself telling. Without excavation, the mound sits somewhere between industrial relic and something older, and no one has yet settled the question.