§ MR. FIELD (Dublin, St. Patrick)To ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland whether he can state the names of towns sold under The Land Act, 1903, and the number of purchasing tenants.
(Answered by Mr. Atkinson.) Early in 1904 the Estates Commissioners undertook to purchase portion of the town of 175 Boyle, the houses in which portion were held by yearly tenants direct from the landlord. With this exception no towns or villages have been purchased by the Estates Commissioners under the Act of 1903. In some few cases advances have been made for the purchase of houses in villages by the tenants of such houses where the village formed part of an estate mainly agricultural or pastoral in character.