HC Deb 09 August 1894 vol 28 cc440-1
MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that 600 acres of land are flooded in the neighbourhood of Lough Key, owing to the high level at which the Knockvicar Lough is kept at the outlet of the lake into the Shannon; whether this flooding could he prevented by constructing a regulating sluice at Knockvicar, as is in use on other portions of the Shannon and its tributaries; and whether he will recommend that the Board of Works take steps to have such a sluice erected at Knockvicar Lough?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Sir J. T. HIBBERT,) Oldham

Further inquiry since my reply of the 26th ultimo to my hon. Friend's previous question has brought to light no report of flooding round Lough Key, and I am therefore unable to add to what I stated in my previous answer.