These monuments, typically identified as low, horseshoe-shaped mounds of fire-cracked stone and charcoal-dark soil, are among the most common archaeological features in the Irish landscape, yet this particular example at Bawnmore has been almost entirely erased from view.

According to local information, the mound was levelled in 1974. A farm shed was subsequently built across part of it, and whatever remained above ground was covered with concrete. The site sits adjacent to a farmyard, and its fate is not unusual for the period; agricultural improvement and building work throughout the twentieth century quietly removed countless such monuments before their significance was widely appreciated. A fulacht fia typically functioned by heating stones in a fire and dropping them into a water-filled trough, bringing the water to a boil for cooking. The accumulated debris of shattered, heat-fractured stone built up over repeated use into the characteristic mound that archaeologists now recognise. At Bawnmore, that accumulation, perhaps representing centuries of use in the Bronze Age, is now sealed beneath a working farm.