Fire doors in a grain mill were not decorative; flour dust is highly combustible, and their presence speaks to how seriously the operators took the risk of losing everything in an instant. That the building had stood for well over a century and a half before demolition, weathering changes of ownership and the slow decline of rural milling, makes its eventual loss feel all the more pointed.

Lawrence Corban built the mill in 1818, the same period he was developing Maryville House on the adjacent land. The complex that grew up on the north bank of the Funshion was substantial: a four-storey, fifteen-bay main structure, its wheel-pit fed by a millrace drawing water from the river some 450 metres to the west. Alongside the north end of the west wall a later six-storey, ten-bay addition was put up, and the whole ensemble was finished with details that suggest a certain ambition, including ornamental brickwork on the corners, ornate oval niches set into the gables, and a bellcote sitting in the central valley where the two gable-ends of the north wall met. Ownership passed to Erasmus Barrington in 1870, and by the 1880s the mill was being run by Patrick Dunlea and Sons. Even in its final decades, when it could only be observed from the roadside beside the main Dublin to Cork road, the scale and decorative detail of the building were visible enough to suggest what had once been a working industrial landmark.

Nothing of the mill survives above ground, but one small material trace was salvaged before the site was cleared. Grain-drying kiln-tiles recovered from the demolition rubble were later laid as footpath paving at Araglin Mills a short distance away, a quiet form of reuse that is easy to walk over without ever knowing what is underfoot.