TOWNLANDS OF NEWTOWNHAMILTON

Drumaltnamuck is a townland of 64 statute acres and 11 perches about two miles north-east of Cullyhanna. It is bounded on the north by Camly Ball, on the east by Finiskin, and on the south and east by Tullyvallen Tipping East. In the Tithe Applotment Books of 1825 the total area of Drumalt is shown as 38 acres and 2 perches (Plantation Irish measure).

Name of townland

Druim-Ailt-na-Muice, "The ridge of the pig's height" ⁽¹⁾.

Valuation

Although the decimalisation of the currency was introduced only in 1971, all of the valuations in the following table have been converted from £sd for convenience.

Year	1837	1851	1864	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1926	1935	1952	1957	1974
Valuation	£39.15	£48.50	£68.50	£68.50	£67.25	£67.00	£59.25	£59.25	£59.25	£47.25	£46.50	£46.50	£46.50

The 1837 Townland Valuation recorded only houses worth £5 or more a year. There were no houses of that value in the townland.

Griffiths Valuation records the owner of the land as the Representatives of William Armstrong.

Census of Ireland 1901

The Census enumerated four people in a single, two-roomed, slated household.

Native Irish Speakers

No Irish speakers were enumerated in the townland.

Population Decline

The following table sets out the number of houses and population enumerated in the townland in each of the 11 Censuses held between 1841 and 1951.

Between 1926 and 1935 the last inhabitant of the townland left or died the there was no one living there up to at least 1974.

Names of House and land Holders ⁽²⁾

The following table sets out the names of those who owned or rented houses and land in the townland at the time the official valuation record or population census was compiled.