The wooden floors have survived, and so have the remains of a hoist system and a winnower, the latter being a machine used to separate grain from chaff by passing air through the threshed material. Together they amount to an unusually complete picture of how a provincial Cork mill actually functioned, rather than simply how it looked from the outside.

The mill dates from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, placing its construction in a period when flour milling in Munster was expanding rapidly to serve both local markets and export demand. By the time the Ordnance Survey recorded the area on its six-inch map in 1842, the complex appeared as an L-shaped structure, a shape that reflects the courtyard arrangement still present today, with additional buildings enclosing three sides of a yard to the north of the main block. The principal mill building is rectangular, oriented on a north-south axis, and roofed in a double-half-hipped style, a form in which the gable ends are partially clipped back to create a small hip at the top, giving the roof a more compact profile. That combination of scale, four full storeys, and restrained industrial detailing is characteristic of the more substantial rural milling enterprises of the period.