That gap in the record is itself telling. Corn mills were once among the most essential structures in rural Ireland, grinding oats, wheat, and barley into the flour and meal that fed local communities. By the nineteenth century, they were fixtures of nearly every parish, typically built beside a reliable stream and powered by a millrace, the artificial channel that directed water onto a wheel. The survival of even fragmentary remains at Driminidy places the site within that broader landscape of rural industry, most of which has quietly disappeared.