§ MR. J. P. FARRELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the sale of the Jessop, county Longford, estate has yet boon sanctioned; whether he is aware that James Rhatigan, of Clonard, Ballymahon, the son of the evicted tenant, has lodged an application with the Estates Commissioners for the restoration to him of his ancestral holding in the townland of Doory, now held by Ambrose Frayne on the eleven months system; and whether the Commissioners, before sanctioning any advance to Frayne, will consider the 1270 right of Rhatigan to be restored to this holding.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce). The sale of this estate was completed in May, 1905. The Estates Commissioners have received an application from James Rhatigan, who states that he was evicted from his holding in 1858. His case, therefore, does not come within the provisions of the Act of 1903. The Commissioners have no knowledge of any letting to Ambrose Frayne on the eleven months system; but Mr. Frayne was the purchaser of a holding on the estate, and the advance to him was sanctioned in 1905.