No millstone, no weir, no crumbling wall. The site of a corn mill that once served one of medieval Munster's more significant ecclesiastical estates has vanished entirely, with not so much as a depression in the ground to mark where it stood. What remains is the river itself, moving quickly enough that it is easy to imagine why someone, centuries ago, chose this particular stretch to harness its energy.

The historical record, thin as it is, offers two distinct glimpses of the place. A 1934 publication by Simington cites an older document describing the lands at Camus as containing a large stone house, a bawn (a defensive enclosure, typically a walled courtyard attached to a fortified house), several cabins, and a corn mill on the river then called the Shewir. Writing in 1896, the Reverend Long noted that several mills in the area, with the one at Camus being the principal among them, had been temporal possessions of Hore Abbey, a Cistercian house near Cashel, and formed part of the diocese of Cashel and Emly. Mills were valuable assets for any medieval religious institution; they generated income through milling fees and gave the abbey practical control over a basic necessity of local life. The suggestion that an island in the middle of the river may have played some role in the mill's operation adds a small architectural puzzle that neither source resolves.