The ground does not announce itself dramatically; instead, slight undulations in the grass trace the ghost of an irregular enclosure, roughly 45 metres across its northeast to southwest axis and about 38 metres northwest to southeast. Without the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map to confirm its outline, a casual eye might pass over the whole thing without a second thought.

Enclosures of this kind are among the more common, and more quietly puzzling, features of the Irish archaeological landscape. They served many purposes depending on their period and context, from settlement boundaries and farmsteads to ceremonial or funerary uses, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say with confidence which function applied. What adds a particular layer of interest at Miles is the local tradition of a souterrain in the field immediately to the east. A souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage or chamber, typically associated with early medieval settlement in Ireland, often used for storage or as a place of refuge. The proximity of such a feature, even one known only through oral tradition rather than confirmed investigation, hints that the enclosure may have been part of a more substantial early settlement complex, the surface traces of which have largely dissolved back into the farmland.