Drumreagh lies 4 kilometres (two and a half miles) west of Ballymoney. The church is situated just beside the townland of the cross, and for many years the church has been known as “The meetinghouse at the cross.” As a town land “The Cross” was a very important part of Ulster.

When Mesolithic man first travelled to Ireland and came up the Bann, “The Cross” was one of the first places where they decided to settle 7000 years ago. This was a perfect place to settle as it was situated at a crossing of the Bann and so the Celts used the area for fairs as it was in a perfect strategic place for such business arrangements. This use of the land was where the name of “Enagh” or “Aenach” came from as it means “a fair” and so the Enagh cross was established. The area was also labelled “Land of promise” by Prince M McNeil of Aileach around 940 A.D. whom the area had a large impact on and he is believed to have said: "We were a night at Enagh Cross- Not more delightful to be in Paradise”. Although an ideal location for trade, the cross was also an ideal easy target for invaders such as the Vikings around the ninth century. When they arrived they brought with them great destruction and terror for those who lived in the area. Many of the residents fled and so other town lands was set up. The Normans followed the Vikings and in the sixteenth century Scottish settlers began to arrive. Although inhabited by people of many different backgrounds it was almost another two hundred years before the first Presbyterians were to settle at the Cross.