Cornahove

Cornahove is a townland of 166 statute acres 1 roods and 21 perches (of which 36 acres 2 roods and 24 perches are water - in Lough Ross) in County Armagh on the southern shore of Lough Ross about a mile north of Cullaville. It is bounded on the north-east by Lisamry, on the south-east by Monaguillagh, on the south by Cullaville and on the west by Ballynacarry and County Monaghan. It's boundary with Monaghan is the River Fane which flows from Lough Ross. The Tithe Applotment Books record the total area as 78 acres 2 roods and 17 perches (Plantation Irish measure).

Name of townland

Corr na hUaighe,"The roung hill of the grave or Corr na hUaimhe, "The round hill of the cave or souterrain" ⁽¹⁾.

There are no other townlands with this name in Ireland.

Ordnanace Survey Name Books: Creggan Parish ⁽²⁾

CORNAHOE (OSNB II 10): There are portions of this td. and two small patches of bog. It is about 31/2' miles from Castleblaney, a bye road runs along SE end. It is all under tillage producing the usual crops rather decently. There are two old forts very convenient to each other in the centre of this td. The dwellings are a little better than huts.
It contains 166..1..21 of which 3..0..19 is uncultivated and Bog, & 36..2..24 water.

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	1828	1837	1851	1864	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1926	1935	1952	1957	1974
Valuation	£64.54	£72.25	£91.50	£101.25	£103.25	£98.75	£98.25	£98.25	£98.25	£96.00	£102.50	£101.00	£114.50	£126.50

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

Griffiths Valuation records that the townland was owned by Hugh Swansea.

Census of Ireland 1901

In Census of Ireland 36 persons (14 male and 22 female) were enumerated in 11 households; a ratio of 3.3 people per household.

Native Irish Speakers

Of the 11 households enumerated in the Census two contained native Irish speakers - three in all. Since theirs was the last generation to have been born into a predominently Irish speaking environment, their names, occupations and ages are recorded here. They were born in Counties Louth, Armagh and Monaghan respectively -

• Ann Daly, farmers wife, 60
• Edward Fanning, farmer, 70
  and his wife Catherine, 60

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.

	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1926	1937	1951
Houses	22	18	17	17	13	12	11	9	8	6	6
People	124	78	69	72	70	55	42	39	39	24	17
People per house	5.6	4.3	4.1	4.2	5.4	4.6	3.8	4.3	4.9	4.0	2.8

In the period of 110 years, the number of households reduced by almost threequarters (73%) and the population by 86%. The largest drop (37%) was in the ten years from 1841 to 1851- the years of the Great Famine. Thereafter there were periods of stability followed by successive reductions; from 1851 to 1891, and from 1911 to 1926.

Names of House and land Holders ⁽³⁾

The following table sets of the names of those who owned or rented houses and land on the townland at the time the valuation records or population censuses were compiled.