Drummuck

Name of townland

Druim Muc, "The pigs ridge" ⁽¹⁾.

There are nine townlands called 'Drummuck' in Ireland. They are in Counties Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Fermanagh, Derry, Monaghan (3), Tyrone.

Ordnanace Survey Name Books: Creggan Parish ⁽²⁾

DRUMMUCK (OSNB ii 26): A small td. with a few patches of bog and uncultivated land. The remainder under tillage in small holdings yielding thin crops. A bye road runs thro' it on which there are a few poor dwellings. It is about one statute mile from Crossmaglen.
It contains 138..1..23 of which 20..3..30 is uncultivated and Bog.

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	£68.88	£80.00	£90.25	£90.25	£90.25	£84.75	£84.75	£86.50	£85.75	£97.50	£100.75	£119.00	£126.25

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

Griffiths Valuation records the owner of the land as John Moore.

Census of Ireland 1901

The Census enumerated 48 people in 9 families; a ratio of 5.3 persons per family. The total of occupied rooms was 23; a ratio of 2.6 per family. The ration of people to rooms was 2.1.

Native Irish Speakers

Of the 9 households enumerated in the Census, four contained at least one native Irish speaker each. 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.

• Bridget McKeown, farmer, 55
• Patrick Harvesy, farmer, 68
• Catherine Larkin, farmer, 80
• Sarah Connolly, farmer, 50

* None of the group could read or write

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	15	14	11	10	10	10	9	9	7	6	7
People	83	72	64	67	55	47	48	37	30	32	25
People per house	5.5	5.1	5.8	6.7	5.5	4.7	5.3	4.1	4.3	5.3	3.6

In the period of 110 years, the number of households halved and the population dropped by 70%.

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.