The mill appears on a 1699 map of Lucan village held among the De Vesci Papers at the National Library of Ireland, depicted just to the east of the Griffeen and to the south of St. Mary's Church and Lucan House. It occupied a parcel of land fronting onto the medieval road that led towards Cooldrinagh, placing it squarely within the working fabric of a late medieval settlement rather than at its margins.

The mill's paper trail reaches back further still. A 1680 survey of the lands of Lucan, also preserved in the De Vesci Papers and recorded as NLI MS 39/256/1, notes that on parcel number 22 a man named Nicholas Roos held land on the north side of the river, described as 'An Island by ye Mill.' That phrasing suggests the mill was already a recognised local landmark by the time the survey was conducted, significant enough to serve as a point of reference for a land boundary. The same archive also holds original and copy title deeds to the nearby lands of Pettycannon, a place-name with its own quiet history: the lands were so called because they had originally belonged to the Petty Canons and Choristers of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, a minor canonry whose members formed the lower tier of the cathedral's musical and liturgical staff.

There is no standing structure to visit here; what remains is documentary rather than physical, scattered across manuscript collections that require a visit to the National Library on Kildare Street in Dublin to consult directly. For anyone walking along the Griffeen River today, the relevant stretch lies close to the older core of Lucan village, near the grounds of Lucan House. Local archaeologist Helen Farrell, whose fieldwork informed the record compiled by Caimin O'Brien, is among those who have worked to keep details like these from disappearing entirely into the archive.