Hi guys. It's been a while. I have found so much. I travelled to Tyrone in Northern Ireland in October 2018. If you have any questions contact me on (*)
Regarding the chapels I had spoke about where James Kerr & Sarah Sproule married...There is an out of print book 'A History of The Parish Of Ardstraw West And Castlederg' by the late Rev. Philip Donnelly which contains information about the Parish. This is what I can ascertain. The Catholic parish of Ardstraw West and Castlederg was created from parts of the ancient parishes of Urney and Melmount. There were three chapels: St. Patrick's in Castlederg (replaced in 1978 with St. Eugene's but St. Eugene remained in use as a church until it too became in need of serious repairs, and so it was decided to refurbish the old Saint Patrick’s Church again & on 11th May 1997, it was rededicated), St. Mary's in Carncorn (Carncorran is a variant spelling), and St. Mary's in Envagh. St. Mary's in Carncorn was replaced by St Francis of Assisi in Drumnabey and was dedicated on 19th December 1982 by the Bishop of Derry, Most Rev Edward Daly DD. It was built to replace the old church of St Mary’s, Carncorn, which had passed beyond reasonable repair. The church can hold 430 persons and is the only church in the diocese to be dedicated to Saint Francis, in memory of the old monastery of Franciscans at Scarvaghern, which was dispersed in 1603. A contact I had on a Castlederg Facebook site said she no idea why both St. Mary's in Carncorn & St. Mary's in Envagh were named St.Mary's...”We always referred to them as Carncorn Chapel and Dregish Chapel” she said.
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