Lime kilns were once a common feature of the Irish agricultural landscape, used to burn limestone at high temperatures to produce quicklime, which farmers spread on fields to improve acidic soils. This one is modest but well-preserved in its essential form, oriented with its front elevation facing east and running parallel to and south of the laneway beside it.

The kiln is built from random-rubble sandstone, a method that uses uncut or roughly shaped stones laid without regular coursing, relying on the earthen core behind for much of its structural integrity. The front face stands roughly three metres high and four and a half metres wide, with an arched recess cut into it, just over a metre and a half tall and nearly two metres wide. This recess, sometimes called the draw hole or eye, was where the burned lime was raked out once firing was complete. The inner arch sits lower than the outer one, and sloping slabs at the rear helped direct the material downward. Behind the kiln, a ramp some sixteen metres long allowed workers or carts to reach the top, where raw limestone and fuel could be tipped down into the funnel, which measures about 1.2 metres in diameter and is now almost entirely infilled with accumulated debris. It is a compact but complete picture of a technology that shaped farming practice across rural Ireland for generations.