MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the tenants of the Drapers' Company's estate, county Derry, who recently purchased their holdings under the Land Purchase Acts, had turbary rights, extending sixty years back, on the Cullion Mountain, and that these rights were recognised since the tenants purchased their holdings, and up to February last, when the Drapers' Company sold the bog 642 to two tenants on another estate, who are now preventing the tenants from cutting turf; and whether the Land Commission will rake any action to secure the turbary rights, which the tenants claim to have enjoyed for so long in this bog, and which rights the tenants claim they purchased with their holdings from the Drapers' Company.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThe Land Commissioners have no information as to special turbary rights on Cullion Mountain, and no reference was made to turbary rights in the agreements for sale. The Commissioners have no jurisdiction to take the action suggested; the tenant purchasers can proceed before the ordinary tribunals to enforce any rights which they may have as appurtenant to their holdings.