TOWNLANDS OF NEWTOWNHAMILTON

Tullyvallen Tipping West is a townland of 187 statute acres 2 rood and 29 perches in County Armagh about two miles north of Cullyhanna. It is bounded on the north by Tullyvallen, on the east by Tullyvallen Hamilton East, on the south by Tullyvallen Macullagh and on the west by Cullyhanna Big and Tullyvallen Hamilton West. 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	1837	1851	1864	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1926	1935	1952	1957	1974
Valuation	£80.30	£93.50	£112.75	£110.10	£113.10	£114.10	£113.35	£111.00	£105.40	£114.15	£110.65	£117.15	£113.65

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 56 people in 12 households; a ratio of 4.7 people per household. The households occupied a total of 29 rooms; a ratio of 2.4 rooms per household and 1.9 people per room. Two of the households had 5 rooms, two had 3 rooms, five had two rooms and three had one room. Four of the houses were thatched.

Native Irish Speakers

There was one native Irish speakers in the townland - Mary Garvey, farmer, widow, 60, born in Co. Armagh.

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.

In the period of 110 years, the number of households dropped by 56.5% and the population by 66.9%.

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.