§ DR. AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the Congested Districts Board have purchased the Anketell Jones Estate, at Burrisboole, Newport, county Mayo; and, if so, will lie say at what number of years purchase of first and second-term rents; what is the average Poor Law valuation of each tenant on this estate; how many acres are offered for redistribution amongst the congested tenantry; and whether some 3,600 acres have been reserved by Mr. Jones.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The Board have purchased a portion, namely, 3,123 acres of this estate, of which 2,542
§ expenses under the various heads enumerated, were as follows:—
§ acres are tenanted and 581 acres untenanted. The number of years' purchase was nineteen in the case of first-term rents, and twenty-two in the case of second-term rents. The average Poor Law valuation of the seventy tenants on the estate is £5 2s. per annum. The 581 acres of untenanted land on the estate, and probably other untenanted land, will be used to enlarge the holdings. The Board understand that the vendor has retained about 2,700 acres of land.