By 1837 it had already acquired a different identity, marked on the Ordnance Survey Fair Plan map under the name 'Moat of Ballynagle', a label that suggests local memory had long since lost track of what the mound originally was. A bowl-barrow is a prehistoric funerary monument, typically a rounded earthen mound enclosed by a surrounding ditch known as a fosse, and this one in Killinure would once have been a reasonably prominent feature on the landscape.

What remains today measures roughly 17 metres across in total, with a flat top of about 4.5 metres in diameter and a height of somewhere between two and two and a half metres. Those dimensions already suggest a structure that has lost something of its original profile, and the damage is not hard to account for. Quarrying has eaten into the western side in particular, where the top of the mound has been cut away, and a laneway running north to south was already clipping the western edge when the six-inch Ordnance Survey map was published in 1837. The fosse, the shallow encircling ditch that would once have defined the monument's boundary, is only partially visible, and a short stretch on the south-eastern side appears to be a modern intervention rather than an original feature.

The mound occupies its rise of ground with good views in all directions, which may have mattered to whoever raised it, though whether that was a practical consideration or a ceremonial one is impossible to say now. What is clear is that the landscape has been quietly reorganising itself around this structure for a very long time, lane by lane, quarry cut by quarry cut, until only the essential shape of it survives.