No pottery, no coins, no tools, nothing that could be pinned to a particular century or owner. What remained was a metalled surface, that is, a deliberately laid and compacted floor or yard surface, measuring roughly 7.25 metres by 5.9 metres, accompanied by three U-shaped channels cut into the ground, along with a scatter of postholes and pits. The structure said just enough to suggest it was once a real and purposeful place, and no more.

The site at Miltonsfields came to light not through any planned archaeological campaign but as a consequence of infrastructure planning. Geophysical survey was carried out under licence 08R117, followed by test excavation under licence 09E 0465, both conducted as part of the proposed Metro North development, the long-discussed rapid transit line intended to connect Dublin city centre northward through Fingal. When excavators reached what lay beneath the surface, the morphology, meaning the shape and arrangement of the features rather than any objects found within them, led the reporting archaeologist Fagan to interpret the remains as medieval in origin. The three U-shaped channels are particularly suggestive; such features are often associated with drainage or with the bedding of structural timbers, though without dateable finds the interpretation rests on form alone.

The site is not publicly accessible or marked in any conventional sense, and given its discovery during a development survey rather than through scheduled excavation, there is no visitor infrastructure attached to it. Its significance lies less in what a person could see on the ground today and more in what it represents about the archaeology of the north Dublin landscape, a region whose medieval settlement patterns remain only partially understood. For those researching the area, the excavation record is the primary resource, and Fagan's 2009 report remains the key reference point for this quietly puzzling set of remains.