§ MR. CONOR O'KELLY () Mayo, N.To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state the terms and conditions upon which the sale of the Rockfield portion of the estate of Cecil Nolan-Ferrall, in the County of Mayo, was sold to the Congested Districts Board; and whether the Board is now proposing to take from some of the tenants on the property portion of their holdings for the purpose of increasing the holdings of sub-tenants on the same property.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Congested Districts Board purchased the entire Nolan-Ferrall estate, including the Rockfield section, at a bulk sum subject to existing tenancies. In the case of one of the tenants of a large holding the Board made a proposal that about three acres of the holding should be given for the purpose of enlarging the small holding of a sub-tenant, the tenant's rent to be proportionately reduced. The tenant, however, declined to entertain that proposal, as also a subsequent proposal made by the Board that six acres of unreclaimed cut-away bog should be given for a like purpose.