Most of the prehistoric stone circles found across Cork and Kerry follow a recognisable pattern: an odd number of uprights arranged around a low, flat recumbent stone placed to the south-west. The circle at Eskine follows none of these rules. It has eight stones, an even number, and no recumbent. That alone makes it anomalous in the local tradition.

The circle measures roughly 8.5 to 9 metres in diameter, with eight upright stones ranging in height from around 0.4 to 1.2 metres, the tallest positioned at the northern point. Every stone is thoroughly encrusted with lichen on all sides, which, as a general indicator of age and stability, suggests the stones have not been moved or disturbed for a very long time. Packing stones, the smaller fragments typically wedged around the base of a megalith to hold it upright, are no longer visible here. The site looks outward, too: from within the circle, there are clear views north and north-east towards Mullaghanattin, one of the higher peaks in the Reeks area of Kerry. Whether that alignment was intentional is unknown, but the vista is a striking one. A related monument, a kerb circle, a type defined by a ring of close-set stones forming a low kerb, often around a burial, sits 2.1 kilometres to the north-east at Gortacloghane.

Some more recent activity has left its mark on the site, not all of it benign. A fire-setting at the centre of the circle appears to be modern, and a large flat-topped boulder placed just to the south of the circle bears what look like machine lacerations and shows almost no lichen growth, suggesting it was moved there recently rather than being any part of the original monument. Modern field clearance material, loose boulders and vegetation, has been heaped up close by. A semi-derelict, unoccupied house stands about 55 metres to the south-south-east. The circle itself, ringed now by modern dykes, ditches, and encroaching forestry, is largely hidden from any distance; you would not know it was there unless you already knew where to look.