What makes it quietly compelling is precisely this duality: by the mid-seventeenth century, the same stream running east of Carrickmines into Glendruid Glen was powering two distinct industrial operations at once, a corn mill for grinding grain and a tuck mill for processing woollen cloth by pounding and compressing it in water. Finding both functions occupying a single rural site tells you something about how comprehensively a local stream could be put to work before mechanised industry arrived.

The paper trail for this place reaches back to the 1650s. The Down Survey, the ambitious land mapping project carried out between 1655 and 1656 under William Petty, marks the mill, and the Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656 confirms the presence of both the corn mill and the tuck mill, as noted by Simington in 1945. By the time the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1836, only the phrase 'site of ancient mill' remained, suggesting the working structures had long since disappeared. The OS Letters, a series of correspondence and field notes compiled by surveyors in the 1830s, add a further layer of detail: the surveyor O'Flanagan recorded sketches of the area in 1927 showing the foundations of a rectangular building and a feature labelled 'Old Quern', a quern being a simple hand-operated grinding stone, here perhaps a remnant or a nearby curiosity noted alongside the mill ruins.

Accessing the site requires some patience. Paddy Healy, drawing on local knowledge passed on through Rob Goodbody, has identified the mill's location as falling within the wooded section of Druid's Glen, which lies in the Carrickmines area of south Dublin. The glen itself is threaded by the stream that originally powered the mill, so following the watercourse through the woodland is a reasonable orientation. There are no interpretive markers or formal heritage signage to guide a visitor. What remains, if anything is visible at all, would be fragmentary stonework rather than any standing structure, and the rectangular foundations noted in the nineteenth-century sketches may now be heavily overgrown. The site rewards those with an interest in the texture of early modern rural industry rather than those expecting something immediately legible on the ground.