Plumbridge
{{short description|Village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name = Plumbridge
| irish_name = Droichead an Phlum{{cite web|title=Droichead an Phlum/Plumbridge|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/135107?s=Plumbridge|publisher=Logainm.ie|access-date=5 April 2017}}
| local_name =
| static_image = NI Owenkill river-Plumbridge.jpg
| static_image_width = 240px
| static_image_caption = Bridge over the Glenelly River, Plumbridge
| map_type = Northern Ireland
| coordinates = {{coord|54.768|-7.251||display=inline,title}}
| belfast_distance_mi =
| unitary_northern_ireland = Derry City and Strabane
| population = 267
| population_ref = (2001 Census)
| irish_grid_reference =
| country = Northern Ireland
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| post_town =
| postcode_area = BT
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| dial_code = 028
| constituency_westminster = West Tyrone
| constituency_ni_assembly = West Tyrone
| lieutenancy_northern_ireland = County Tyrone
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Plumbridge is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is a crossroads village, standing on the banks of the Glenelly River, {{convert|16|mi|0}} south of Derry. In the 2001 census it had a population of 267 people.{{cite web|title=Plumbridge|work=NI Neighbourhood Information System, Gazeteer of Settlements|url=http://www.ninis.nisra.gov.uk/mapxtreme_towns/datacatalogue.asp|access-date=16 January 2011}} 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 of Glencoppogagh.{{Cite web |title=Glencoppogagh, County Tyrone |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?views=Townlands#data_s=id%3AdataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A29102 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=18 October 2024 |website=PlacenamesNI}} However, some of it lies on the southern bank, within the townland of Lisnacreaght.{{Cite web |title=Lisnacreaght, County Tyrone |url=https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/9b31e0501b744154b4584b1dce1f859b/page/Place-Name-Info/?views=Townlands#data_s=id%3AdataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_9110%3A437%2Cid%3AdataSource_1-PlaceNames_Gazeteer_No_Global_IDs_3734%3A29537 |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=18 October 2024 |website=PlacenamesNI}}
Religion
The Roman Catholic church is Sacred Heart Church, a Grade B2 listed building,{{cite web| title=Sacred Heart Church, Plumbridge| work=Department of the Environment NI Buildings Database| url=http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/built/build.htm| access-date=16 January 2011| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718163634/http://www.doeni.gov.uk/niea/built/build.htm| archive-date=18 July 2011}} and the Presbyterian church is [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glenelly_Presbyterian_Church,_Plumbridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_200601.jpg Glenelly Presbyterian] Church, Plumbridge. The village's nearest Church of Ireland church is [https://www.flickr.com/photos/11287317@N04/3307295854/ Upper Badoney Parish Church], a few miles up the Glenelly valley.
Sport
The local Gaelic Athletic Association club, Glenelly St. Joseph's, was established in 1891. There are ladies' teams and men's teams. It is commonly referred to as Glenelly.{{cite web |title = About us |publisher = Glenelly St. Joseph's GAC |url = http://gaa.glenelly.net |access-date = 2009-02-25 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081206172909/http://www.gaa.glenelly.net/ |archive-date = 2008-12-06 |url-status = dead }} In 2015 Glenelly Ladies senior football team won the Tyrone and Ulster Intermediate Championships. The village had applied for membership of the [http://www.skiclub.ie/members/membership National Ski Club Ireland] in 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 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;{{cite web |url=http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00599.xml |title=ROBERT C. DUNN: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society Manuscripts Collection |website=Minnesota Historical Society |access-date=9 March 2022}} and Peter McCullagh, a statistician at the University of Chicago.
See also
{{Commons category|Plumbridge}}