Lime Kiln, Torglass Townland, Murlough Road, Torr, Ballycastle, Co. Antrim

A single-pot rubble masonry lime kiln of 19th or earlier 20th C date. This kiln is located on the SW side of a single-lane road along the rocky shoreline at Murlough Bay and is set on a NE-facing slope with its frontage facing towards the sea. The kiln is built with squared sandstone rubble brought to courses. Its draw hole is at the base of its facade and comprises a segmental arch which gives into a splayed reveal containing two arches of diminishing size; the innermost is over the actual hole. All the arches have roughly dressed voussoirs. The hole is now largely buried under an accumulation of sediment. On either side of the front arch's crown is a small rectangular damper hole which controlled the rate of burning in the pot. At the back of the right-hand (NW) elevation is a curved random rubble retaining wall built into the slope. The ground is also reveted on the left side of the frontage to create a level area in front of the draw hole. The top of the kiln is flat and has a single circular stone-lined pot to centre from which a tree is now growing. Metal bars have been placed over the opening in the interests of public safety. Setting: The kiln is situated just above the wave-swept shoreline in an area of open ground at the base of a basalt escarpment. There is a track up the slope to the west of the kiln, from which a small earthen ramp leads across to the top of the pot. There is no obvious limestone quarry in the vicinity and rock falls from the limestone horizon underneath the basalt may have been its source material. The single-lane road in front of the kiln would have been used to take the lime to its points of use.