A modest single-storey structure on the east bank of the Creevoge stream, just half a kilometre northwest of Castletown Bearhaven, it measures roughly thirteen metres from north to south and just over five metres wide, gable-ended and unremarkable to look at from a distance. But it contains two wheel-pits, one set into the north wall and one into the south, each about 1.3 metres wide. That pairing is the telling feature.

This was a fulling mill, a type of industrial building that processed woven wool cloth rather than ground grain. Fulling involved pounding freshly woven fabric with heavy wooden hammers, or stocks, driven by a waterwheel, to clean and compress the fibres and give the cloth a denser, more finished texture. The presence of two wheel-pits suggests the mill may have been capable of running separate machinery simultaneously, or that one pit replaced or supplemented an earlier arrangement as the operation evolved during the nineteenth century. The Creevoge stream, dropping down toward the sheltered harbour town of Castletown Bearhaven on the Beara Peninsula, would have provided a reliable power source for exactly this kind of small-scale textile processing, serving the local farming and weaving community of west Cork.