§ MR. GILHOOLYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the attention of the Congested Districts Board has been called to the proposed sale, on the 26th instant, of three farms at Rossmore, Durrus, county Cork, by Mr. William Kearney, who holds the fee simple of them; and whether, seeing that three tenants on adjacent estates are willing to migrate to these holdings and surrender their farms, in order to enlarge other holdings on the Bird, Beamish, and O'Donovan estates, urge the Congested Districts Board to buy Mr. Kearney's interest.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Congested Districts Board are making inquiries into this matter with the object of considering whether they will make an offer for the purchase of the farms referred to.