The Gortatole Outdoor Education Centre in Florencecourt is situated on the shore of Lower Lough MacNean beneath the imposing cliffs of the Hanging Rock.

Nearby are two of Fermanagh's major tourist attractions, Marble Arch Caves and the National Trust property Florence Court House.

Florence Court Forest Park is situated on the north east shoulder of Cuilcagh mountain.

The church was built c.1791[2] with money raised by local subscription and parochial assessment,[3] on land endowed to the parish by 1st Earl of Enniskillen.

[6] Further alterations were made later in the 19th century on behalf of 3rd Earl of Enniskillen, including new windows in the chancel and east transept with "more orthodox sandstone Decorated tracery".

[7] The church was burnt to the ground in 1979 with only the tower and external walls surviving; nothing remains of the original interior.

Before the fire, Rowan described St John's as "an attractive and unusually complete late Georgian gothic church".

[9] "A four bay lancet hall built in 1857 with an asymmetrical north tower (altered in its top stage to become a modern belfry).

The previous church on the site was built in 1887; its opening ceremony was performed by prominent Enniskillen Methodist William Carson.

The chapel was a small limestone three-bay gabled hall with wooden double Y tracery windows.