Trillick Methodist Church

History

Methodism had reached the Trillick area by 1768. In that year one of the Augher Circuit ministers, probably John Smith, stopped at Magheralough, near Trillick, while travelling from Tonyloman to Londonderry, and stayed at the home of G Irvine, who the congregation's history suggests was the local Methodist leader. John Wesley visited the Methodist Society at Magheralough on 10 June 1771 and recorded in his Journal that he preached there about noon.

The General Missionaries Ouseley and Graham conducted a preaching tour centred at Ballinamallard in 1800 and preached at Trillick. Building of a Wesleyan Methodist church was started in 1833. Methodism in Ireland had divided in 1818 into the Primitives and the Wesleyans, and in 1836 the Wesleyans built a new church, the building that later became Trillick Orange Hall. The two bodies came together again in 1878.

Trillick was for many years on the Irvinestown Circuit and generally had a junior minister of its own living in the village. This ended in 1966, and in 1976 Trillick joined the Ballinamallard circuit.

The building

A new vestry, kitchen and toilets were built in 1968. The kitchen was replaced in 1995 and other refurbishment work was completed at the same time. A mobile classroom, named the Lindsay Room, was dedicated on 19 June 2011 to provide additional space for the work of the society.