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Knockloughrim Presbyterian Church is on the road to the village of Gulladuff, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It was established during 1761 and its first minister, a Rev James Harper was court martialled during 1798[1] for treason after an uprising in Ireland that year in which his oldest son, William was implicated and lost all his property because of his sympathies.  Although James was acquitted, he and his son emigrated to America. Another son called James, took over the ministry, it only lasted a year as he also left, joining his family across the Atlantic Ocean.

The original church was later replaced during 1840 with the building that is there today. There is 1 Commonwealth burial of the 1914-1918 war here


[1] The Irish uprising of 1798, while initially supported in Ulster, the attitude soon changed when the stories of sectarian slaughter in Leinster and Wexford reached the people of the north. The Presbyterian insurgents in Ulster suffered more executions than any other area. A brief French invasion also took place and short lived 12-day Irish Republic followed. All of which were crushed.

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