Craigmore Methodist Church was originally known as Aghagallon Wesleyan Chapel. The land on which it was built had been given by Mr Henry Shillington. At first, he had hoped to persuade the Earl of Hertford, through his clerical agent, to provide an appropriate site but had failed to do so.
The chapel was able to seat 250 people and the original seating was in the shape of forms. The pitch pine pews were a later addition. The pipe organ, still in working order today, was also a later addition and an appropriate organ chamber had to be built to accommodate it. The organ was a gift from Mr Fred Turtle, who was an organist in Craigmore Church, until shortly before his death, in 1907. Oral tradition has it that the organ was taken from Mr Turtle's own home and transferred to the church. Mr Turtle lived in a house at the centre of Aghalee.
The church is sign-posted from Orken Lane, off the Lurgan to Crumlin Road.
THE CACHE
The co-ordinates above are not the co-ordinates for the cache, instead they take you to the church where you need to look for a date. Call the four numbers of the date ABCD.
The cache will be found at:
N54 31. B (A+B) (A+A) W006 16. D (B-C) C
The cache is a small box.
sadexploration is no longer including caches in N. Ireland in his UK Church Micro series but the Church Micro IE series is open to everyone; if you have a church you would like to place a cache at then please contact THE_Chris through Geocaching.com. This is to keep track of the numbers of the churches and give you the general format for the cache page. In the UK there are ~1500 caches in the series so we have some catching up to do! Also, if you currently have a published cache at a church that you would like to include in the series, get in contact and we can add it.