| Plumbridge | |
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 Bridge over the Glenelly River, Plumbridge | |
  Plumbridge Location withinNorthern Ireland | |
| Population | 267 (2001 Census) |
| District | |
| County | |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | BT |
| Dialling code | 028 |
| Police | Northern Ireland |
| Fire | Northern Ireland |
| Ambulance | Northern Ireland |
| UK Parliament | |
| NI Assembly | |
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Plumbridge is a small village inCounty Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is a crossroads village, standing on the banks of theGlenelly River, 16 miles (26 km) south ofDerry. In the2001 census it had a population of 267 people.[3] It lies withinDerry City and Strabane District area.
Most of the village is on the northern bank of the Glenelly River, within thetownland of Glencoppogagh.[4] However, some of it lies on the southern bank, within the townland of Lisnacreaght.[5]
TheRoman Catholic church isSacred Heart Church, a Grade B2 listed building,[6] and thePresbyterian church isGlenelly Presbyterian Church, Plumbridge. The village's nearestChurch of Ireland church isUpper Badoney Parish Church, a few miles up the Glenelly valley.
The localGaelic 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.[7] In 2015 Glenelly Ladies senior football team won the Tyrone and Ulster Intermediate Championships. The village had applied for membership of theNational Ski Club Ireland in 2012 but had faced opposition from critics who argue "there is no snow".
Among the notable people that have come from Plumbridge areJames MacCullagh 1809–1847, mathematician atTrinity College, Dublin (TCD); his brother John MacCullagh, lawyer of Trinity College Dublin; American frontiersmanRobert Campbell; Minnesota legislator Robert Campbell Dunn;[8] andPeter McCullagh, a statistician at the University of Chicago.
