Badoney Upper Parish Church, Church of Ireland, Plumbridge, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland Historial Notes

Extracted from Derry Clergy and Parishes – Rev. James B. Leslie (1937)

Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com

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BADONEY UPPER PARISH CHURCH HISTORICAL NOTES

COUNTY TYRONE

PARISH DIVIDED INTO UPPER AND LOWER SECTIONS IN 1774

The Tripartite Life of St. Patrick states that St Patrick, while in this territory founded seven churches near the Faughan river, of which Badoney (the tent of the Lord, or of the Church), is the only one that retains its name (see Reeves Colton’s Visitation pp 55, 71, 120) As stated above it had an alias Athgudbdaimb=? the field of the Ox.

The Patron Saint was St. Aicheen, 7th in descent from Colla Meann. Before the Reformation the Rectory was appropriate to the Prior and Convent of St. Mary of Dungiven.

The Parish is situate in Co. Tyrone

The Church is an old one. It was built (or rebuilt) in 1784.

Date	Historial Item
1661-5	Five chapels are given as in this parish, Ballyhulline, Ballineleny, Scarvenherin, Templepole, Collaghy.
1622	Church was ruinous. Parish held with Cappagh. “One T.L. [townland] of Glebe layd forth in the wilde mountains 2 miles distant from the Church The Incumbent has bound his tenant to build one house after the English Maner, wch is in building”. ……”parish consisting wholly of Irish recusants.”
1686	John Baird was Parish Clerk, no Schoolmaster: Robert McConnell of Corregg and Patrick Campbell, of Longmore, Churchwardens. (Visitation Book)
1693	John Reaid (or Beaid?) Par. Clerk and Schoolmaster, John Campbell and Patrick Nicholl, Churchwardens. (Visitation Book) Glebe granted by patent 70 ac. “but in Survey is called Clogheragh and contains 454 ac. 1r. 24p.” “There are four quarters of land impropriate in the parish - the tythes belonged to the Religious Houses of Carrick where a Chappell ought be built and endowed with the tythes, or a sufficient salary.
1693-4	Walter Clerk and Daniel McFarland, Churchwardens. Incumbent resides at Donaghmore which he also holds, is to get a curate from All SS Day, meanwhile the Curate of Ardstraw has served Badoney every afternoon. Parishioners not numerous, but all conformable. Parish mountainous, but was of good value before the troubles. “The Parish Church lies in the mountains and has nor been repaired since the Reformation, it will now be necessary to repaire it, the parish like to be planted with Protestants. In the mean time there is a little House built for Celebrating Divine Offices in that part wch. is most planted.”
1806	Church in repair, a Glebe House and 170 acres glebe.
1861	Church population was 512, Protestant Dissenters [Presbyterians] 787. Gross Income 1867,£505 15s. 8d., Curate £100. Annuity at Disestablishment £518 7s. 2d
	Carrickmore Churchyard is vested in the local Burial Board.

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