Badoney Church of Ireland in the Glenelly Valley is typical of new Anglican churches funded by the church’s ‘Board of First Fruits’. Known as the ‘tower and hall type’, they followed the Georgian norms of simplicity and proportion and, as with this one, tend to be located on or near to the site of the preceding medieval building. Churches such as these invariably had a small extension at the end to house a chancel added later. A medieval feature, these became popular again in the Church of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. The chancel to this building was added in the 1860’s.
24. Georgian Church- Upper Badoney Parish Church.
Badoney Church of Ireland in the Glenelly Valley is typical of new Anglican churches funded by the church’s ‘Board of First Fruits’. Known as the ‘tower and hall type’, they followed the Georgian norms of simplicity and proportion and, as with this one, tend to be located on or near to the site of the preceding medieval building. Churches such as these invariably had a small extension at the end to house a chancel added later. A medieval feature, these became popular again in the Church of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. The chancel to this building was added in the 1860’s.
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7. Early Christian era - Badoney Cross
Badoney Church in the Glenelly Valley is another early foundation reputedly associated with St Patrick and also a medieval parish church. There is little to see of this period in the modern graveyard apart from a marked hump and loose rubble, however, a small cross which is considered to be from this age was taken into the church for safe keeping in 1978. Such features are often associated with church sites and prefigure the more ornate high crosses of later generations. 3. 2500 years ago- Clogherny Wedge Tomb
An apparently similar structure is Clogherny Wedge Tomb, which is located on high ground between Plumbridge and Donemanagh. However, it is much younger dating from around the Early Bronze Age of 2,500 years ago. It is surrounded by a ring of standing stones which were shown in an excavation of 1937 to be linked to the monument by cobbles. It may be that the stones are a later addition to the site and reflect the interest of a later generation. Half way up the Glenelly Valley, is an old three arched hump back bridge, indicated on the first Ordnance Survey map of 1830, of great charm, slowly being engulfed by vegetation Urban vernacular. An old house of great charm at the edge of Plumbridge. Stone built, white washed and a corrugated fibre board roof to the projecting porch.
Plumbridge, at the base of the beautiful Glenelly Valley in Co. Tyrone. Two buildings in the heart of the village, beside the bridge, which add great character. Late Victorian, one is a pub, the other a shop.
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