Burrell's Folly, Burrell's Glen, Omagh Road, Drumquin, Co Tyrone, BT78 4QX is a Grade Record Only listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Burrell's Folly, Burrell's Glen, Omagh Road, Drumquin, Co Tyrone, BT78 4QX
- WRENN ID
- deep-foundation-tallow
- Grade
- Record Only
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Constituency
- West Tyrone MP: Órfhlaith Begley (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Address
- Burrell's Folly, Burrell's Glen, Omagh Road, Drumquin, Co Tyrone, BT78 4QX, Drumnaforbe, BT78 4QX
- Irish grid reference
- H 330 736
- Coordinates
- 54.61027, -7.4898
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
The remains of Burrell’s Folly are located on the Omagh Road, Drumquin, in the townland of Drumnaforbe, Co Tyrone. The site first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854, replacing an earlier building to the south of the plot and set perpendicular to the main house. It was previously captioned "Burn's Folly" on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833. Griffith’s Valuation records Edward Sproule Esq as the leaseholder, with Henry Echlin, Jas A and Frederick Boyle Esqs as the property owners. The buildings were initially valued at £13 15s 0d, revised annually to £15 0s 0d, and later to £2 by 1908. According to A. Rowan's "The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster," the structure is a ruined farmhouse dating back to 1779, once part of a larger complex including outbuildings and which housed the Sproule family. The main house is no longer standing and only the former offices remain. The internal arrangement of rooms, fireplaces, suggests a combination of workers’ dwellings, storage and agricultural uses.
Local climate
Burrell's Folly, Burrell's Glen, Omagh Road, Drumquin, Co Tyrone, BT78 4QX sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 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 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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