Notes from Sheila:

Someone wanted to look at the FIRST Griffiths valuation - the TOWNLAND VALUATION - that was done in the mid to late 1830s. So when I got the references I thought I'd take a look at the Mourne Barony one for Kilkeel. There were only 2 books!! The Nos. for the land sections are there but only the description of the land is noted and only houses with a rateable value of £5 or more were actually detailed - thats for the rural areas. When it came to Kilkeel town - they have all the streets and the names of the owners of the over £5 houses. 
 
There were apparently 2 others before the main one - and both are recorded in the same books. The original entries didn't have the names of the streets but they have been added at the later date, which I think was sometime in the 1840s. The originals were done December 1834 - January 1835. For Newcastle ROAD there are 65 names listed. I have noted them all and will put them on a document in a bit and send them over to you! Doyles, Hamiltons and Quinns to name but a few!
 
I looked at Aughnaloopy and Aughrim too - just out of interest - and the note at the bottom of each page says "No House in this Townland worth £5 per annum". So Springfield Villa wasn't there then! I have a few that I've remembered that I didn't note down - Christopher Marmion in Drumcro was the only one there over £5. In Ballymagart there was Mr. Chesney and another Marmion - only those 2 for that townland.
 
The detail is pretty good too - size of the property, number of offices, yards, gardens etc all with the sizes.

I took a look at the maps that go with these records too - not much on them for Kilkeel Town - its just plot 16 - and they are pretty bare by comparison to the later Griffiths. Very clear though - I might get one of them - I think there are about 8 that cover the whole Parish - and thats not including Kilbroney, Kilcoo etc. They are pretty large scale - but Moore Lodge is there loud and clear!!

The road listed before is Market Square - so I'm assuming this to be Bridge St. and Newcastle St. As there was the Old Church listed and there is also an Inn (no.4 John Shannon). The one owned by Lord Kilmorey (Viscount was crossed out so he could have been the Viscount in the 1830s and became Lord by the second one - you know how they crossed out and wrote in a different colour on the revaluations) is noted as "Over Stephensons formerly a Court House now a school house." It just seems right to me! I would say though that it goes out along the road past the Rooney Rd. to maybe as far as the Mill Rd.

This building was built as a Market house around 1832. On the ordnance survey map of 1834 of Kilkeel, the Market house! Courthouse is shown as being surrounded by fields

The Old Courthouse (from Raymond Kelly's Site)