Cullaville

Cullaville is a village and townland of 145 statute acres 2 roods and 25 perches (including 2 acres water) about 2 miles east of Crossmaglen. It is bounded on the north by Cornahove, on the east by Monaguillagh and Creevekeeran, on the south by Glasdrummonaghy and Annaghgad, and on the east by Carrickamone and Ballynacarry. The townland does not appear in the Tithe Applotment and may have been incorporated in Monaguillagh.

Name of Townland

English, "McCulla's Town" ⁽¹⁾. There is no other townland of that name in Ireland.

Ordnanace Survey Name Books: Creggan Parish ⁽²⁾

CULLAVILLE (OSNB ii 13): There is a village of the same name in this td. The Patent granted by George 2nd creates it a market and fair town altho' neither have, or is held there. It is a pretty clean village on a good situation at the junction of ... principal road about 7 miles from Dundalk and two from Crossmaglen. The land is tolerably good. There are only two small dwellings detached from the village.
It contains 145..2..25 of which 7..1..5 is uncultivated and Bog, 2..0..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	1837	1851	1864	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1926	1935	1952	1957	1974
Valuation	£119.23	£107.00	£143.25	£142.50	£139.50	£142.00	£139.75	£165.75	£165.25	£238.50	£244.75	£491.50	£827.75

The increase in rateable value in 1970 was due to the construction of 32 public authority houses in the townland in the 1960s.

The 1837 Townland Valuation recorded only houses worth £5 or more a year. There were four such houses in the townland -

• Terence Hanaway
• John Monaghan
• Catherine O'Callaghan
• Hugh O'Callaghan

Griffiths Valuation records the owner of the most of the land as the representatives of John Reed. James Geraghty is recorded as having a forge. In 1935 The forge was owned by James Sammon.

Census of Ireland 1901

The Census enumerated 81 people in 14 households. Excluding Patrick Cunningham- with 8 rooms and 16 people - the other 13 households comprised 65 people; a ratio of five people per household. These households occupied a total of 31 rooms, a ratio of 2.4 people per room. Three of these households, totalling eight people, lived in single room accommodation; seven lived in two rooms, and three had 4 or more rooms.

Native Irish Speakers

Of the 14 households enumerated in the Census, four contained at least one native Irish speaker - 5 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. All were born in Co. Armagh, with the exception of Norah Ruddy, born Co. Monaghan.

• Thomas Watters, father of James Watters, retired farmer, 76
• Patrick Donnelly, farmer, 46
  and his aunt Mary McArdle, retired domestic servant, 83
• Norah Ruddy, governess in house of Patrick Cunningham, 17
• Ann Meehan, retired domestic servant, 70

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	18	18	20	24	17	15	14	11	12	16	14
People	103	77	84	115	67	66	81	79	63	71	65
People per house	5.7	4.3	4.2	4.8	3.9	4.4	5.8	7.2	5.3	4.4	4.6

The population of the townland declined between 1841 and 1861 - following the pattern of most others. However, by 1871 the population was higher than in 1841. This surge, the reason for which is not known, did not last and from 1881 the population fluctuated without further decline. By 1970 the development of public housing had dramatically increased the habitation and population.

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.