Roughly 35 metres across its long axis and excavated to a depth of between one and a half and two metres, it sits on a gently east-facing slope, its rock face exposed just below the townland boundary that runs along its northern edge. What makes the site quietly odd is that someone has been backfilling it at intervals, so the depression is slowly being swallowed back into the improved grassland around it.

The first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1840, records a limekiln on the site. A lime kiln is a stone-built furnace in which limestone was burned to produce quicklime, used widely in the nineteenth century for fertilising fields and for building mortar. By the time the twenty-five-inch OS map was produced, the structure was already marked as disused, located in the southern portion of the quarry. The fact that the townland boundary runs along the quarry's northern edge suggests the extraction here is old enough to have been used as a convenient landmark when those boundaries were being formalised, which hints at activity well before the 1840 survey captured it in ink.