§ MR. JOHN O'DONNELL (Mayo, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Irish Land Commission or the Congested Districts Board will take steps to take over the grazing lands on the Brown Hall estate, near Balla, County Mayo, now about being disposed of by the Court of Chancery, which have been in the hands of a large glazier since 1900, for the purpose of enlarging the holdings of the 920 agricultural tenants on the estate who are now about purchasing their holdings.
I beg also to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether his attention has been directed to the efforts made by the tenants on the Brown Hall estate, near Balla, County Mayo, to obtain turbary on several neighbouring estates; and to the fact that there are on that estate, and on a grazing tract held for the past two years by a resident in the town of Balla, about fifteen acres of excellent turbary; and whether, seeing that the remainder of this estate is about being sold to the tenants by the Court of Chancery, and that the tenants are prepared to give the same amount of purchase money for the turbary and grazing lands as they are giving for their holdings, he can take steps to have these fifteen acres divided among them.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThis estate is administered in the Court of the Land Judge. The proceedings for the sale to the tenants of their holdings will, it is expected, be shortly completed. I am informed that there is no grazing or bog land available for apportionment amongst the tenants on the estate. The land to which reference is made is let to one of the tenants as an ordinary tenant. The turbary in question is nearly all, so I understand, cut away.