What makes it worth stopping for is the care visible in its construction: the front wall carries a neatly arched recess framed with dressed limestone voussoirs, the shaped wedge-stones that lock an arch together, rising 1.6 metres high and spanning 2.2 metres across. Behind that arch, a central lintelled recess is fitted with sloping slabs set into the vertical rear wall, a practical arrangement designed to control the draw of air through the burning charge above.

Lime kilns were once a fixture of the Irish agricultural landscape. Farmers burned limestone at high temperatures to produce quicklime, which was then spread on fields to reduce soil acidity, a particular concern on the wet, peaty ground common across much of Munster. This example dates from the early or mid-twentieth century, by which point the practice was already beginning to give way to industrially produced lime. The body of the kiln is built in random rubble, using local shale rather than imported or dressed stone for the bulk of the structure, which gives it a quietly functional appearance apart from those carefully finished voussoirs at the front. The choice to use dressed limestone specifically for the arch, while keeping the rest rough, suggests a builder who knew where structural precision actually mattered.