Plumbridge is a small
village
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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. It is no longer used as an administrative division for local government but retai ...
, Northern Ireland. It is a crossroads village, standing on the banks of the
Glenelly River. 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
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of Glencoppagh. 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
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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
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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.
Early Life
MacCullagh was born in Landahaussy, near Plumbridge, County Tyrone, Ireland, but the family moved to Curly Hill, Strabane when James was about 10. He was the e ...
1809–1847, mathematician at
Trinity College, Dublin (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
*
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 s ...
References
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Villages in County Tyrone