Measuring just under nine metres in length and oriented roughly west-northwest to east-southeast, the structure is easy to miss beneath the encroaching vegetation. Its oven, a little over a metre deep, was built from flat-bedded karst, the distinctive limestone that defines the Burren landscape, and corbelled inward to form a self-supporting roof. A lintelled flue, corbelling being a technique where stones are layered so that each course projects slightly inward until the courses meet, extends eastward from the oven for three and a half metres, giving the kiln its characteristic elongated footprint.

What makes the location quietly arresting is the company the kiln keeps. About eighty metres to the north-west lies Cabhail Tighe Breac, identified as the probable fifteenth or sixteenth century schoolhouse of the O'Davoren family, who were among the most prominent practitioners of Brehon law in late medieval Ireland. Brehon law was the ancient Gaelic legal system, transmitted through hereditary learned families, and the O'Davorens maintained a law school here well into the early modern period. A small structure or enclosure sits just three metres to the east of the kiln, suggesting this south-eastern end of the settlement was itself a functioning part of daily life in a community that was doing considerably more than studying legal texts. Whether the kiln was used for drying grain, burning lime, or some other purpose, it represents the ordinary, practical infrastructure that supported a settlement more often remembered for its intellectual rather than its agricultural character.