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Templemichael Group of Parishes
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| Clooncumber | Clonguish | Templemichael | Ballymacormack | Killashee |
Rector: Revd David Catterall
“Amberley”
The Belfry
Longford
Ph: 043 46442
Email: longford@ardagh.anglican.org
This group of parishes is made up of five churches - Clooncumber, Clonguish, Templemichael, Ballymacormack and Killashee. They are all located in and around the town of Longford in the county of the same name.
Clooncumber Chapel-of-Ease
Location: This building was originally a School and is situated east of the village of Bor-na-Coola in Country Leitrim; it is 9 miles from Longford town.
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Service Times and Type Of Service: 1st Sunday: 9.45am Morning Prayer 2nd Sunday: 9.45am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday: 9.45am Morning Prayer 4th Sunday: 9.45am Morning Prayer 5th Sunday: Contact Rector for details |
St. Paul's Church, Clonguish
Location: This Church is situated in the centre of the village of Newtownforbes, five miles to the north of Longford on the N4 road. The building shows signs of “Dissenter” influences: it has Box Pews, a curved Communion Rail and a Triple-Decker Pulpit whose third part is as high as the Galleries. One of the Galleries formed the private seating of the Earl of Granard, his family and their domestic servants.
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Service Times and Type Of Service: 1st Sunday: 11am Morning Prayer 2nd Sunday: 11am Morning Prayer 3rd Sunday: 11am Holy Communion 4th Sunday: 11am Morning Prayer 5th Sunday: Contact Rector for details |
St John's Church, Templemichael (Longford)
Location: St. John's church is situated right in the heart of Longford near to the oldest part of the town on the banks of the Camlin. The present building was erected in the 1700s at which time it replaced a building of Queen Anne date or earlier. Prior to that a pre-Reformation Church with a link to a Dominican Friary existed on the same site for several hundred years. A carved wooden notice board in the Baptistry lists Rectors going back to a Neamiah Mecken in 1413. Tradition has it that St Patrick founded a church on the site in the fifth century.
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Service Times and Type Of Service: 1st Sunday: 12.15pm Holy Communion 2nd Sunday: 12.15pm All-Ages Service 3rd Sunday: 12.15pm Morning Prayer 4th Sunday: 12.15pm Morning Prayer with Sunday School 5th Sunday: Contact Rector for details |
St Catherine's Church, Ballymacormack
Location: This church is situated on the main road to Athlone via Ballymahon, about 5 miles from Longford. A listed building, it was originally built to accommodate troops from one of the Longford barracks during Imperial times.
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Service Times and Type Of Service: 1st Sunday: 8.30am Holy Communion 2nd Sunday: 8.30am All-Ages Service 3rd Sunday: 8.30am Morning Prayer 4th Sunday: 8.30am Morning Prayer 5th Sunday: Contact Rector for details |
St. Paul's Church, Killashee
Location: St Paul's is a short walk from the centre of Killashee village on the southbound road to Roscommon and Lanesborough (N63).
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Service Times and Type Of Service: The church will be closed for the next few months so that repairs may be carried out. |
Parish Information
This group
of parishes has a population of about 270 Anglicans. There is a three-floor parish
hall situated in Longford town and a 3–teacher school with 55 pupils close by.
There are a broad spectrum of parish organisations including:
GFS, BB, MU, Sunday School, Table Tennis and Badminton. A warm relationship with
Longford Methodist Church existed long before the Covenant was signed in 2000;
they have a long tradition of providing Youth Clubs and Holiday Bible Clubs in the area.
In the months where there is a fifth Sunday all the churches combine for a single Act of Worship,
occasionally including our Methodist friends.
Cordial relations between all the larger Churches is a feature of life in Longford.