Our Company currently has approximately 70 girls on our roll but we would like to see more.
Each night we do Bible Study then do our badge work. This varies from handcrafts, cooking, community service, practising for competitions, aerobics, drill and loads more.
We always make time each night for playing games or if the older girls [...]
Glendermott Presbyterian Church Youth Club meet each Friday Night between the hours of 7.30pm and 9.30pm. The programme is varied and includes football, uni-hoc, cricket etc in the main hall. Other activities include snooker or computer games or just simply chilling out over a cup of coffee. We have a short talk each night on [...]
Our Girls’ Brigade Company celebrated 40 years in May of this year. It was the perfect way to finish yet another year.
On the 20th April 2008 the girls had a Church Service in the evening which was led by our Minister and Chaplin the Rev. John Hanna. The main focus of the Service [...]
As I conclude this short history of Glendermott Presbyterian Church, I have tried to document all the significant episodes in our congregation’s past, when developments to our buildings, property and forms of worship occurred. Mention has also been made of periods of historical importance and of material contribution to our church. Importance has been attached [...]
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MINISTERS OF FIRST GLENDERMOTT
JOHN WILL; born Scotland; educated Glasgow; M.A. (Glas.), 1645 ordained Glendermott (1st), 1654, received £60 a year from the Protectorate, 1655; tithes, 1658; deposed for non-conformity, 1661, but continued to minister. Warrant for his arrest (November, 1661) to answer before the Lord Justices “Such matters as may be objected against him.” November, [...]
ERECTED BY
1st & 2nd Glendermott Presbyterian Church
In loving and honoured memory of the Members who nobly fell in the Great War.
Lieut. Thompson J.W.
Sergt. Thompson Robt.
Corpl. Norris William
Pte. Austin John
Pte. Creswell John
Pte. Curry John
Pte. McBrien Robert
Pte. McClay Robert
Pte. Norris David
Pte. Stevenson George
Pte. Thompson Wm (Fred)
Pte. McCrea Robert
And in grateful acknowledgement of the services of the following [...]
The people of Glendermott are justly proud of the number of ministers and missionaries, who were brought up in the congregation. The record of the Corkey family is probably without equal anywhere. The three daughters of the late Rev Joseph Corkey M.A., L.L.D., became missionaries and the eight sons became ministers. In addition to these [...]
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Rev Joseph Corkey married Miss Isabella Sloane in 1866 and the background to this happy event is worth relating.
Isabella’s parents, James and Anne Sloane were originally from Scotland. James did not enjoy good health and it may have been because of this that they went to live in Hobart, Tasmania, where Isabella was born in [...]
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CLONDERMOT, which is the name of a townland as well as a whole parish, is derived from the name of the clan who ruled there, the CLAN DIARMADA or the clan of Dermot. This clan was a Sept of the CENEL EOGHAIN on the East of the River Foyle. The Clan Diarmada were the O’Carolans [...]
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Every Kirk Session is referred to as a court of the Church and when one examines some of the Minutes of Session Meetings, they do illustrate the fact that Sessions were called upon to deal with problems which would nowadays be the business of a Magistrates Court.
Many of the minute books contain accounts of disputes [...]