The surviving tower at Clougheast in County Wexford is not spectacular by any measure, but it retains enough of its original fabric to reward a closer look. An ivy-covered cylindrical structure, it stands to roughly five metres across three storeys, with an external diameter of 4.6 metres and an internal diameter of 3.1 metres. Its single doorway faces east and measures just over half a metre wide; opposite it, a western opening, possibly a converted doorway, serves as a window. Inside, steps project from the inner face of the wall on the south side, rising to the first floor, and the joists of the upper floors were set directly into the walls rather than supported by any internal frame.

The mill has a documented history stretching back to the mid-seventeenth century. It appears on the Down Survey maps of the 1650s, that ambitious Cromwellian-era land survey which mapped Irish landholdings in extraordinary detail, covering both the barony of Forth and the parish of Carne. The Book of Survey and Distribution, compiled in the 1660s to record land ownership before and after the Cromwellian confiscations, indicates the mill would have been in the possession of James Codd of Clough East around 1640. By the time the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch maps in 1839, the mill was still recorded as operational. A century later, the same mapping programme noted it as disused. Somewhere in that interval, the sails stopped turning and the tower was left to the ivy.