O'Neill Vault, Drummaul Parish Churchyard, Church Road, Randalstown, Co Antrim is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Antrim and Newtownabbey local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
O'Neill Vault, Drummaul Parish Churchyard, Church Road, Randalstown, Co Antrim
- WRENN ID
- stark-bastion-mist
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Constituency
- South Antrim MP: Robin Swann (UUP)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- J 079 903
- Coordinates
- 54.74971, -6.3241
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is an early 19th-century mausoleum, built around 1838 at a cost of £500 by Lord O’Neill as a family burial place. It is located within the graveyard of Drummaul Parish Church, in a prominent position near the church building, and is enclosed within a sandstone-flagged area bordered by a low plinth wall topped with ironwork railings. The railings feature anthemion motifs alternating with spear-like finials. An entrance gateway faces south, and inside are two large stone blocks fitted with iron rings to provide access to the vault below; one of these blocks is fractured. Two domical stone blocks with perforations, likely for ventilation, are positioned in front of and behind the tomb. The tomb itself stands on a stepped base and features fluted brackets and pediments on each face, with raised shield-like stone plaques on the shorter sides; these plaques are currently without inscriptions. Previously, the family burial place was located in a vault at Shane's Castle, Randalstown. The mausoleum contains niches for 18 coffins. It stands within a conservation area and is on private land.
Local climate
O'Neill Vault, Drummaul Parish Churchyard, Church Road, Randalstown, Co Antrim receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- No flood data for this area
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
- 1 Vault in burial ground, Shane's Castle Park, Antrim, Co Antrim
- 2 Drummaul Parish Church, (St Brigid's C. of I.), Church Road, Randalstown, Co Antrim
- 3 Derryloran Old Churchyard, corner of Sandholes Road and Drum Road, Cookstown, Co Tyrone
- 4 Upper Langfield Parish Church, Drumrawn, Drumquin, Omagh
- 5 'Tir N'an Og' burial ground, Mount Stewart, Newtownards, Co. Down
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Drummaul Parish Church, (St Brigid's C. of I.), Church Road, Randalstown, Co Antrim
- Randalstown Presbyterian Church (Old Congregation), Portglenone Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim
- Randalstown Central Primary School, 4 Church Road, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AJ
- 97 Main Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3BB
- Drummaul House, 41 New Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AF
- 29 New Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AF
- 26 New Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AF
- Public Library, 34 New Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AF
- 38 New Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim, BT41 3AF
- The White House, New Street, Randalstown, Antrim, Co Antrim