Drumcrin Church Tower, Drumcrin, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8GJ is a listed building in the Fermanagh and Omagh local planning authority area, Northern Ireland.
Drumcrin Church Tower, Drumcrin, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8GJ
- WRENN ID
- upper-hearth-moss
- Grade
- Local Planning Authority
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Constituency
- Fermanagh and South Tyrone MP: Pat Cullen (SF)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Irish grid reference
- H 426 208
- Coordinates
- 54.1348, -7.34841
- Source
- NI Environment Agency listing
Description
This is a two-stage church tower situated on an elevated site overlooking surrounding farmland within the lakelands of County Fermanagh. The tower is set within a churchyard and is accessed from the road via a wrought-iron gate supported by rubble stone gate piers with pyramidal stone caps, vestiges of lime render, and ram’s-head finials and dogbars.
The tower itself is constructed of random rubble stone with sandstone dressings, some of which retain traces of lime render. The design incorporates an ashlar sandstone platband between the two stages. The SE face of the tower was formerly adjoined by the church, evidenced by a slightly projecting pitched section to the first stage. The ground stage has door openings on both the SE and NW faces, with the remaining faces blank. The upper stage contains semicircular-headed window openings with keystones on all faces except the SE, where no window is present. The upper stage is topped by fragmentary remains of a crenellated parapet with finely dressed sandstone quoins and base.
According to an 1835 Ordnance Survey Memoir, the church was small and inconveniently positioned at the western extremity of the parish, and was frequently subject to flooding. It was constructed around 1785-1795 and was described as damp and in poor repair, accommodating approximately 200 people. The 1834 Ordnance Survey map shows both the nave and tower. The church was recorded in the 1836 Valuation book as a "Protestant church house" measuring 51 feet 6 inches by 26 feet 6 inches by 16 feet. By 1857, the nave had become roofless. The churchyard contains a few early to mid-19th-century stone memorials, including the Moore memorial, a stone slab resting on four stone blocks dating from around 1830.
Local climate
Drumcrin Church Tower, Drumcrin, Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, BT92 8GJ sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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