Fountain outside 59 Main Street, SIxmilecross, Omagh, Co. Tyrone is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Fountain outside 59 Main Street, SIxmilecross, Omagh, Co. Tyrone
- WRENN ID
- strange-belfry-russet
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Constituency
- West Tyrone MP: Órfhlaith Begley (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- H 571 680
- Coordinates
- 54.55728, -7.11765
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a public water fountain located outside 59 Main Street in Sixmilecross, County Tyrone. Constructed sometime between 1920 and 1939, it forms part of a group of similar fountains in the village. The fountain is missing its top piece; consequently, it is less complete than other listed fountains in the area.
The fountain consists of a plain, shaped and fluted column topped with a lion’s mouth spout, which would have dispensed water. It originally featured an acorn finial, now lost. The column is inscribed with the makers’ name ‘Glenfield & Kennedy Ltd, Kilmarnock’. Water troughs were marked along the street on Ordnance Survey maps dating from 1906 and 1937, although pumps were not specifically identified. Further information can be found in Fred Hammond’s 1997 report, 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland: A Preliminary Survey', under Pump no. 67. The fountain possesses characteristics of industrial archaeological interest.
Local climate
Fountain outside 59 Main Street, SIxmilecross, Omagh, Co. Tyrone sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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.
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