Lime kilns were once a commonplace feature of the Irish rural landscape, used to burn limestone at high temperatures and produce quicklime for spreading on acidic agricultural land or for use in mortar and whitewash. That so many have vanished, or been absorbed into hedgerows and field boundaries, makes a well-preserved example all the more worth pausing over.

This particular structure was built into a south-facing slope, a typical arrangement that allowed the kiln to be loaded from above while the finished lime was drawn out from the base. The front wall, standing 3.5 metres high and 3.8 metres wide, faces south and is constructed in random rubble sandstone, a method using unshaped stones laid without regular coursing. At its centre is a lintelled recess, just under two metres high and roughly 1.4 metres wide, where the calcined lime would have been raked out once burning was complete. A horizontal ledge runs across the front wall above this opening. At the rear, the kiln's top is accessible directly from the road, with a low stone wall edging the back, and below that the stone-lined funnel, 1.3 metres in diameter, through which fuel and limestone were fed in alternating layers before firing. The woodland setting now gives the whole structure a sheltered, almost forgotten quality, the trees pressing in on walls that once would have glowed with heat.