It was once a spade mill, a type of forge-driven works that produced the hand tools, principally spades and loys, that were fundamental to Irish agricultural life well into the twentieth century. Today it functions as a workshop, its industrial past legible more in the bones of the structure than in any active machinery.

The building was already established by 1842, when the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded it as a rectangular structure oriented north to south, with a central projection extending to the east. That footprint is still broadly recognisable. The surviving structure is roughly rectangular, two storeys tall, with a three-bay eastern frontage and a two-bay addition at the southern end, the addition set at a slightly different angle, suggesting it came later or was built to a separate plan. Details worth noting include the blocked semicircular window or recess at attic level in the south gable, framed in brick, and a corresponding circular blocked opening in the north gable. A central brick chimney rises from the west elevation, a remnant of whatever heating or forging process once drove the work inside. More recent additions have been made to the western rear of the building.

The blocked openings and the slight angular discrepancy between the main block and its addition give the building a quietly layered quality, the kind of thing that repays a slow look rather than a passing glance. The Glashaboy river runs close by to the west, and while the notes do not specify a millrace or waterwheel arrangement, the siting along a river is consistent with water-powered forge operations common to rural spade mills across Ireland.