TOWNLANDS OF NEWTOWNHAMILTON

Ummerinvore is a townland of 210 statute acres, and 16 perches five miles north-east of Cullyhanna. It is bounded on the north by Tullyogallaghan, on the east by the Parish of Forkhill, on the south by Roxborough and on the west by Dorsey Hearty. In the Tithe Applotment Books of 1825 the total area of the townland is shown as 109 acres and 6 perches (Plantation Irish measure)

Name of townland

Iomaire Mhóre, "The big ridge"⁽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	£74.70	£92.00	£113.50	£106.75	£108.25	£111.75	£111.75	£107.00	£105.75	£124.25	£123.50	Note	Note

Note: Not avilable - record damaged.

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 50 people in 13 households; a ratio of 3.8 persons per household. The households occupied a total of 36 rooms; a ratio of 2.8 rooms per household and 1.4 persons per room. One household occupied 5 rooms, nine occupied 3 rooms, one occupied 2 rooms and two occupied a single room.

Native Irish Speakers

There were one Irish speaker; Peter McParland, agricultural labourer, 80, 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 50% and the population by 77.6%.

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.