The only detail that survives description is a single arched recess facing north-west, the characteristic mouth through which a lime kiln would have been loaded with alternating layers of limestone and fuel, then fired to produce quicklime for agricultural use. That agricultural use was the point: spreading lime on acidic Irish soils was standard farm practice for centuries, and kilns of this kind once dotted the countryside in considerable numbers. Most have since collapsed, been robbed for building stone, or, as here, simply disappeared beneath bramble and ivy.

The kiln at Pellick appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which places it firmly within the period of intensive rural land improvement that characterised the early nineteenth century in Ireland. The six-inch survey, carried out in the 1830s and 1840s, was a remarkably thorough document of the landscape as it existed just before the Famine, and the fact that this kiln was considered worth marking suggests it was a functioning or recently functioning structure at the time. Beyond its presence on that map and the north-west-facing recess, the physical record is thin. The site is described as heavily overgrown and inaccessible, which means that even its dimensions and construction materials remain unconfirmed.