The mill race is dry now, the pond behind it overtaken by vegetation, but the bones of a once-substantial operation are still legible in the landscape. What makes this site particularly unusual is the range of technologies it passed through over its working life: from waterwheel to turbine, and from horse-drawn cart to a private branch line that connected the mill directly to the Clonakilty Railway.

The main structure is gabled and L-shaped, surrounded by later mill buildings that accumulated around it as the enterprise grew. Along the western side runs a wheel pit that once housed a very large cast iron breast-shot waterwheel, a type in which water strikes the wheel roughly at its midpoint, giving more force than an undershot design without requiring the height of fall that a full overshot wheel demands. At some later stage, the mill complex was converted to turbine power, and one of those turbines remains in situ. The private railway branch connecting the site to the Clonakilty line suggests the mill was, at its peak, producing grain on a scale that required its own rail infrastructure, a significant investment for any rural industrial concern. To the north stands Shannonvale House, an L-shaped, five-storey, three-bay residence with gable ends, its proximity to the mill almost certainly reflecting the domestic arrangements of whoever ran the operation.