§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Estates Commissioners have acquired or agreed to purchase untenanted land on the Thomastown estate, County Meath, and, if so, what is the acreage thereof; and will the Estates Commissioners in dealing with this untenanted land consider the claims of the evicted tenants in the union of Oldcastle, County Cavan, in which union this estate is situated, as very little land is available in County Cavan under the Evicted Tenants Act.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Estates Commissioners have notified in the Dublin Gazette their intention of acquiring compulsorily under the Evicted Tenants Act, 170 acres of untenanted land on the estate in question. The applications from those persons in the union of Oldcastle who come within the provisions of the Act will receive due consideration in the distribution of the lands.