The site where Anner Mills once stood, on a gentle south-facing slope with the River Anner to the east and the Suir at the base of the slope to the south, is now just road. The complex has been fully levelled, and nothing visible remains to mark what was once a working industrial site at the ford of the Anner.

The mill's origins are recorded in the Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656, one of the great land surveys carried out under Cromwellian administration to establish ownership of Irish land following the wars of the 1640s. The survey records that "uppon the said lands stands a greist mill neere the ffoord of Annor lately built by Richard Power sonne and heire of the said Allexander." A grist mill, for the uninitiated, was a mill for grinding grain, typically the economic engine of any rural estate. The proprietor in 1640 is identified as Alexander Power, described in the survey's characteristic bluntness as "late of Ticckincor in the County of Waterford decceased Esqr Irish Papist." That designation, Irish Papist, was the survey's formal language for Catholic landowners whose property was subject to forfeiture or scrutiny under the new regime. By the time the survey was compiled, Alexander was dead, and his son Richard had already built the mill, suggesting the family had been actively developing the land in the years immediately before the upheaval of the 1640s. The site appears again, much later, as "Anner Mill" on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, which may indicate continuity of milling activity on or very near the same spot across two centuries.

There is nothing to see here now. The road has seen to that.