placenamesDrumlegagh
Droim Liagach
The village’s Presbyterian congregation began as Second Ardstraw in the eighteenth century.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Droim Liagach · Irish · main form · validated name
- Drumlegagh · English · main form
Place & story
From Second Ardstraw to Drumlegagh
The congregation dates its beginnings to 1782, with Reverend Thomas Dickson as its first minister. It initially included Castlederg, then called Dergbridge. The Drumlegagh name came into use for the congregation in 1913. [2]
A farming community
Nineteenth-century marriage entries show the church serving families from Drumlegagh and surrounding townlands. Farmers feature prominently, alongside a smith, a carpenter and a shoemaker. A surviving financial statement from 1862 lists the pewholders and stipend payers whose contributions supported Second Ardstraw. [2] [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Strabane Lower
- Civil parish
- Ardstraw
- Coordinates
- 54.66697, -7.48850 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414197 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Drumlegagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Drumlegagh Presbyterian Church, Ardstraw Parish: Marriages 1845–55 · Len Swindley
- Second Ardstraw [Drumlegagh] Presbyterian Church Pewholders 1862 · Len Swindley
- Drumlegagh Presbyterian Church, as photographed in2013 illustration: based on a Drumlegagh Presbyterian Church by Kenneth Allen. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-25. How this page was prepared.