Dromore Crossing, Dromore Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1QZ is a listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Dromore Crossing, Dromore Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1QZ
- WRENN ID
- roaming-lead-equinox
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Constituency
- West Tyrone MP: Órfhlaith Begley (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- H 443 714
- Coordinates
- 54.58919, -7.31488
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
Dromore Crossing is a single-span road bridge built around 1850, carrying Dromore Road over a now-disused railway line near Omagh, County Tyrone.
The bridge is constructed of squared-and-snecked rockfaced basalt with splayed abutments and parapet. A rockfaced sandstone string course runs to carriageway level, and the parapet is topped with squared sandstone rockfaced coping. The single segmental-headed arch features a plain sandstone springing course and rusticated ashlar voussoirs. The arch soffit is vaulted in red brick, with rockfaced stone below the springing course. To the north-east and south-west, curved retaining walls terminate in square pillars. The carriageway is approximately 6 metres wide.
The bridge was built during a period of railway expansion in the region. It first appears on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1854. The railway it crosses originally formed part of the Londonderry & Enniskillen Railway, incorporated in 1845. This line reached Omagh in 1852 and Enniskillen by 1854, opening important commercial routes for the agricultural and market towns of the region. The company was subsequently leased to the Dundalk & Enniskillen Railway Company in 1860, then absorbed into the Irish North Western Railway, and finally merged in 1876 to form the Great Northern Railway Company (Ireland). The railway line closed during the mid-twentieth century as road transport competition increased.
The bridge's condition has been significantly compromised by modern development. A housing development constructed to the north-west has raised ground levels, completely obscuring the north-west façade. The north-west parapet has been removed. The bridge remains in use as a road structure, though substantially altered from its original form.
Local climate
Dromore Crossing, Dromore Road, Omagh, Co Tyrone, BT78 1QZ sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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