Following restoration, it operated again for a short while as a working mill for the creation of wholemeal flour for Lifeforce Foods.
[5] Its entry in the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage describes it as the "only surviving example of five mills in Cavan town".
[5] It is included on the Record of Protected Structures maintained by Cavan County Council.
[7] The turbine may be an example of 19th-century industrial espionage, as it is believed to be a patent infringing copy of a design by Benoît Fourneyron.
[4] A similar turbine was installed at Ballincollig Royal Gunpowder Mills, Cork in 1853.