The site in question lies along the River Tolka at Finglas Bridge, where the evidence for a mill stretches back to the mid-seventeenth century and probably further.

The Civil Survey of 1654 to 1656, a comprehensive Cromwellian-era inventory of Irish land and property, records a mill at Finglas Bridge. Around the same period, legal depositions, sworn statements gathered in the aftermath of the 1641 rebellion, name a William Baily as someone who had been driven from his mill at this location. The disruption implied by that detail places the site within the turbulent politics of mid-seventeenth-century Ireland, when displacement from property was a common consequence of conflict and confiscation. By 1837, when the Ordnance Survey produced its six-inch mapping of the country, a paper mill was recorded at what is very likely the same spot, suggesting the site had continued in industrial use across the intervening centuries, shifting its product even as it kept its position on the river.

There is little left to see. A factory now occupies the ground, and the visible landscape gives little away about what preceded it. The Tolka itself still runs through this part of the city, and Finglas Bridge remains a legible landmark for anyone tracing the river's route. The value of the site is less in what stands there now and more in what the documentary record reveals about the continuity of industrial activity along an urban river that tends to attract less attention than the Liffey. For anyone interested in the archaeology of everyday economic life, the successive mentions in survey, deposition, and map sheet are the real object of interest, even if the ground itself has moved on.