Plumbridge is a small village in
County Tyrone
County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland. Its county town is Omagh.
Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the cou ...
, Northern Ireland. It is a crossroads village, standing on the banks of the
Glenelly River, south of
Derry
Derry, officially Londonderry, is the second-largest City status in the United Kingdom, city in Northern Ireland, and the fifth-largest on the island of Ireland. Located in County Londonderry, the city now covers both banks of the River Fo ...
. In the
2001 census it had a population of 267 people. It lies within
Derry City and Strabane District area.
Most of the village is on the northern bank of the Glenelly River, within the
townland
A townland (; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a traditional small land division used in Ireland and in the Western Isles of Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of medieval Gaelic origin, predating the Norman invasion, and mo ...
of Glencoppogagh. However, some of it lies on the southern bank, within the townland of Lisnacreaght.
Religion
The
Roman Catholic
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church is
Sacred Heart Church, a Grade B2 listed building, and the
Presbyterian
Presbyterianism is a historically Reformed Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders, known as "presbyters". Though other Reformed churches are structurally similar, the word ''Pr ...
church is
Glenelly PresbyterianChurch, Plumbridge. The village's nearest
Church of Ireland
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church i
Upper Badoney Parish Church a few miles up the Glenelly valley.
Sport
The local
Gaelic Athletic Association
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...
club,
Glenelly St. Joseph's, was established in 1891. There are ladies' teams and men's teams. It is commonly referred to as Glenelly. In 2015 Glenelly Ladies senior football team won the Tyrone and Ulster Intermediate Championships. The village had applied for membership of th
National Ski Club Irelandin 2012 but had faced opposition from critics who argue "there is no snow".
History
Among the notable people that have come from Plumbridge are
James MacCullagh
James MacCullagh (1809 – 24 October 1847) was an Irish mathematician and scientist. He served as the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin beginning in 1835, and in 1843, he was appointed as the Erasmus Smith' ...
1809–1847, mathematician at
Trinity College, Dublin
Trinity College Dublin (), officially titled The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of Queen Elizabeth near Dublin, and legally incorporated as Trinity College, the University of Dublin (TCD), is the sole constituent college of the Univ ...
(TCD); his brother John MacCullagh, lawyer of Trinity College Dublin; American frontiersman
Robert Campbell; Minnesota legislator Robert Campbell Dunn;
and
Peter McCullagh, a statistician at the University of Chicago.
See also
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List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland
This is an alphabetical list of towns and villages in Northern Ireland. For a list sorted by population, see the list of settlements in Northern Ireland by population. The towns of Armagh, Lisburn and Newry are also classed as cities (see city ...
References
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Villages in County Tyrone