TOWNLANDS OF NEWTOWNHAMILTON

Tullyvallen Hamilton West is a townland of 96 statute acres 3 roods and 8 perches in about two miles north-west of Cullyhanna. It is bounded on the west, north-west, north and north-east by Tullyvallen, on the east, south-east and south by Tullyvallen Tipping West and on the south-west by Cullyhanna Big (Creggan Parish).

Name of townland

See Tullyvallen

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	£32.25	£27.25	£53.75	£52.75	£52.75	£52.75	£52.75	£54.10	£56.10	£67.10	£69.85	£77.35	£79.85

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

Griffiths Valuation records the owner of the townland as Walter McGeough Bond.

Census of Ireland 1901

The Census enumerated 13 people in 4 households; a ratio of 3.3 people per household. The households occupied a total of 10 rooms; a ratio of 2.5 rooms per household and 1.3 people per room. Three of the households had 3 rooms and one had 1 room. Two one of the houses were thatched.

Native Irish Speakers

There were no native Irish speakers.

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.

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.

Note 1: Included in Tullyvallen

In the period of 110 years, the number of households dropped by 45.5% and the population by 60.6%.

Names of House and land Holders ⁽¹⁾

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.