§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Mr. Jeremiah Leahy, of Corbally, Farrenfare, county Kerry, a tenant farmer, having given leave for the erection on his holding of a hut to shelter the family of an evicted tenant of Lord Kenmare, Pat Murphy, of Rath, whose house had been burnt by order of the landlord after he had been six times evicted, and the hut having been erected on Mr. Leahy's holding, an officer of police called upon Mr. Leahy, in company with the under agent of Lord Kenmare, stated that a police hut would be erected on the holding, and when Mr. Leahy intimated his intention of seeking legal redress for any act of trespass, informed him that the hut would be put up at the point of the bayonet; and whether it has been put up, and is now standing on Mr. Leahy's farm; what right the police had to threaten Mr. Leahy, and to put up the hut on his holding against his will, and whether it will be continued 99 there; whether the district is quite peaceful, and has been so for a considerable time; and, whether, the facts being so, the extra police force will be further maintained, or the cost of it be charged on the occupiers of the district?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, a hut has been erected on Mr. Jeremiah Leahy's holding, for the shelter of the man Patrick Murphy, referred to in the Question; and a hut for the accommodation of an extra police force has also been erected on land which, though part of Leahy's farm, is in Lord Kenmare's possession, Leahy having the grazing right on it. As regards Murphy's evictions, the circumstances were as follows:—He was first evicted by his son-in-law, both were then evicted by Lord Kenmare. Murphy was re-admitted as caretaker for a period of nine months, after which he was again put out. He then took forcible possession of the house, which it was found necessary to destroy, after he had been put out once again by force. The district is not in a satisfactory state, and the cost of the extra police must be levied off it.