Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Fountain
Sixmilecross, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Fountain
- Date of listing
- 3 August 2007
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Fountain, Outside 30 Main Street, Sixmilecross, Omagh, Co. Tyrone
- Townland
- Sixmilecross
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.55688, -7.11830
- Date of survey
- 15 September 1995
- HB reference
- HB11/20/014
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A fountain with a plain shaped fluted column and a lions mouth spout. The column is inscribed 'Glenfield/ & Kennedy Ld/Kilmarnock'.
Historical information
Water troughs are marked along the street on the 1906 and 1937 OS 25 inch maps (PRONI Ref OS 10/6/44/6/1 and 2), but no pumps explicitly cited. Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no 69.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
C. Ornamentation
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Evaluation
One of a group of public water fountains in Sixmilecross. They are a reminder of when the only supply of drinking water was from a public water pump.
Nearby in the register
- Fountain outside 29 Main StreetFountainunder 1 mi
- Fountain outside 59 Main StreetFountainunder 1 mi
- 12 Main Street,No type recordedunder 1 mi
- Fountain outside 46 Main StreetFountainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.