The outer bank rises 2.4 metres above the surrounding ground, still well-formed despite the dense furze that has colonised its top, and the whole enclosure stretches roughly 32 metres across. A causewayed entrance, a deliberately uncut gap in the bank and ditch that allowed people and livestock to pass through, survives at the north-east, oriented towards a wide panoramic sweep of countryside that takes in Fethard on the horizon.

Ringforts, known variously as raths or cashels depending on whether they were built from earth or stone, were the dominant settlement form in early medieval Ireland, broadly from the sixth to the twelfth century. Most were farmsteads, the fortified homesteads of farming families who used the enclosing bank and ditch as much for managing animals as for any serious military defence. The external fosse, a ditch running around the outside of the bank, is partially silted up on the west-south-west side, and the outer bank to the west and north appears to have been absorbed into a later field boundary, with a short stretch removed entirely. This kind of gradual incorporation into agricultural landscape is common; working land has a way of consuming older structures piece by piece over centuries. What makes the situation at Redcity particularly interesting is that a second ringfort lies only 150 metres to the west-south-west, suggesting this was once a more densely settled corner of the parish than the quiet pasture there today would imply.