§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSY (Limerick, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say whether the Estates Commissioners have received an application from the representatives of Maurice Cowhey, deceased, of Ballinaguile, Croagh, evicted tenant on the De Burge Bateson estate, now untenanted land; and whether, when the untenanted land on the Dickson Power estate, situate at Clonshire and BoherBrada, in the county of Limerick, is purchased by them, they will give the Cowheys some of this land in lieu of their evicted farm.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Estates Commissioners have inquired into the application referred to, and have decided that they can take no action upon it. The holding in which reinstatement is sought has been sold under the Land Purchase Acts to the occupying tenant, and moreover the applicants are already in possession of a farm of 100 acres.