What survives today, or at least what was still visible when the Ordnance Survey mapped the area in 1837, includes the remains of two limekilns. A limekiln is a simple but essential piece of rural infrastructure, a stone-built furnace used to burn limestone and produce quicklime for agricultural and building purposes, and the presence of two of them beside a quarry suggests a site that was once genuinely productive rather than merely incidental.

The earliest written record of this place comes from the 1654 to 1656 Civil Survey of Dublin, a Cromwellian-era document compiled to establish the value and ownership of land across Ireland following the upheavals of the 1640s. In its entry for 'The Naal', the survey describes a collection of features on a single landholding: an old castle with a straw-covered hall, an orchard, a garden plot, ten tenements, and, notably, 'one open stone Quarry also a grove of Ashtrees set for ornament'. The ash grove is an unexpected detail, suggesting that whoever held these lands in the mid-seventeenth century was thinking about appearance as much as utility. The whole property was valued by the jury at one hundred and seventy-five pounds. When the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was published in 1837, a small quarry with those two limekilns appeared to the south of the castle, and it is reasonably proposed that this is the same feature recorded in the Civil Survey nearly two hundred years earlier.

The site lies in the vicinity of Naul castle, and anyone interested in finding it would do well to consult the relevant Ordnance Survey Ireland mapping, since the quarry and kilns are recorded under the Sites and Monuments Record reference DU004-045012-. The landscape around Naul is gently rolling and agricultural, and features like this can be subtle on the ground, the stonework of old kilns often merging with field boundaries or overgrown banks. The castle itself, recorded separately under DU004-045002-, provides a useful orientation point. There is no particular season that suits a visit above others, though low winter light can sometimes make earthworks and stone features easier to read from a distance.