TOWNLANDS OF NEWTOWNHAMILTON

Tullyvallen Tipping East is a townland of 218 statute acres 2 roods and 28 perches about two miles north-east of Cullyhanna. It is bounded on the north by Camly Macullagh, on the east by Camly Ball, on the south by Tullyvallen Tipping East and on the west by Tullyvallen Tipping West and Tullyyvallen. In the Tithe Applotment Books of 1825 the total area of Tullyvallen Tipping, incorporating the current East and West portions, is shown as 458 acres and 28 perches (Plantation Irish measure).

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	1851	1864	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1926	1935	1952	1957	1974
Valuation	£82.00	£110.50	£105.00	£105.00	£104.00	£100.00	£100.00	£99.25	£108.25	£108.25	£118.25	£116.00

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

Census of Ireland 1901

The Census enumerated 61 people in 11 households; a ratio of 5.5 people per household. The households occupied a total of 25 rooms; a ratio of 2.3 rooms per household and 2.4 people per room. One of the households had 5 rooms and ten had 2 rooms. Three one of the houses were thatched.

Native Irish Speakers

There was one native Irish speakers- John Murphy, farmer, 55, born in Co. Armagh

Population

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.

In the period of 110 years, the number of households remained the same though the population reduced by 23.7%. However, the number of households and population actually increased in the post-famine years, only beginning to decline in the 1860s.

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.