Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Mile stone
Drumcru, Fermanagh and Omagh, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Milestone
- Date of listing
- 14 March 2005
- Date of construction
- 1800 - 1819
- Address
- Mile stone, Drumcru Cross Roads, Drumcru, Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh, BT92 0QT
- Townland
- Drumcru
- Council
- Fermanagh and Omagh
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.17882, -7.38023
- Date of survey
- 12 December 2000
- HB reference
- HB12/02/118
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A mile stone prominently sited at Drumcru Cross Roads (on the corner of the roads to Crom and Wattle Bridge). A large limestone block, finely dressed to its two road faces and rounded to its top. It stands (at a slight angle) c.110cm high and is c.50cm square in cross-section. One face reads (in 5cm high capitals): 'CRUM CASTLE/ 2 MILES/ LISNASKEA/ 6 MILES'. The other reads: '[MONAGHAN?]/ [?] MILES/ CAVAN/ 10 MILES'.
Historical information
The main road is cited as 'Mail Coach road to Dublin and Cavan' on the 1834 OS 6" map. It is not shown on any of the 1:10,560 maps (due to its small size). It was possibly erected by the Post Office in the early 1800s as a result of the upgrading of mailcoach roads (sanctioned by an Act of 1805).
Primary Sources:
1. OS 6" map, 1st edition (1834), Co Fermanagh sheet 39 (PRONI OS 6/4/39/1).
Secondary Sources:
1. W.A. McCutcheon, The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland, p.12 (Belfast, 1980).
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
An increasingly rare type of roadside feature which lends interest to this locality and is symbolic of the pre-internal combustion era.
Nearby in the register
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Milestone 14 MileMilestoneunder 1 mi
- Houseunder 1 mi
- New Drumcru BridgeBridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.