That is the quiet fate of the building that once stood on the west bank of the Araglin River in Ballyderown, its machinery cleared out during the 1970s and its interior given over to livestock. The rendered random-rubble sandstone walls remain, and so does the wheel-pit alongside the eastern gable, the hollow channel where a waterwheel once turned. The entrance piers to the southwest were originally arched and reportedly carried a date-stone and name plaque, though both are now gone.

The mill was already operating by the time the Ordnance Survey mapped the area in 1842, when it appears as a 'Woollen Factory' on the six-inch sheet. By 1903 it had been renamed 'Araglin Mill (Woollen)' on a revised survey. The same 1903 map reveals something of the engineering that kept it running: a millrace drawn from the Douglas River roughly 200 metres to the north, and a weir thrown across the Araglin to the east feeding a second millrace along the mill's eastern side. Two water sources, two races, a fourteen-bay building, all of it pointing to a substantial operation for rural north Cork. Another woollen mill, Fleetwood Mill, sits about 200 metres to the northeast, suggesting this stretch of river once supported a small concentration of textile industry. The attached mill house to the north is a four-bay, two-storey structure, and its garden path is laid with grain-drying kiln-tiles salvaged from Maryville Mill, a neighbouring site, lending the domestic space an accidental archaeology of its own.