But this particular stretch of land in the Suir valley, just within Marlfield townland and about 200 metres south-west of the site of an old abbey, is where a mill complex once stood that can be traced back through the historical record to the seventeenth century, and probably much further given its name.

A survey recorded in Simington's 1931 volume on the Civil Survey describes the place under the name 'Abyneslewnaght', identified with what is now Inishlounaght townland, as belonging to 'Patricke Goegh of Kilmaniheen in the County of Waterford Esqr Irish Papist'. On Goegh's land, the survey notes, stood the walls of an old abbey alongside two working mills, described as one grist mill and one tucking mill, both lately rebuilt by a Thomas Batty of Clonmel. A grist mill ground grain; a tucking mill, also called a fulling mill, was used to clean and thicken freshly woven woollen cloth by pounding it in water, a process central to the cloth trade. Having both on the same site points to a small but economically active complex, drawing on the same watercourse for two distinct industries. By the time the first Ordnance Survey six-inch map was drawn in 1840 to 1841, the site was marked simply as 'Abbey Mill', taking its name, almost certainly, from the monastic ruins nearby. A century later, the 1950 to 1951 revision shows no mill at all.

What remains today is modest but legible: a fragment of wall with its lime render still partially intact, now functioning as a field boundary, and the mill race itself, channelised and still running quickly through the low-lying ground. Lime render, a mixture of sand and lime used to coat masonry, was standard in vernacular building and its survival here, even in a repurposed wall, gives a faint material link back to the structure that once processed grain and cloth on this quiet bend of the Suir valley.