§ Mr. THOMAS F. SMYTHasked how much untenanted land has been purchased by the Estates Commissioners or the Congested Districts Board in county Leitrim with a view to reinstating evicted tenants or enlarging uneconomic holdings; and where this land is situate, together with the price paid for the same?
§ The CHIEF SECRETARY for IRELAND (Mr. Birrell)The only untenanted land purchased by the Congested Districts Board in county Leitrim is a farm of 150 acres, situate in Carrick-on-Shannon Union. The price paid was £889. The farm was acquired for the purpose of enlarging adjacent holdings. The Board have no power to acquire land for the reinstatement of evicted tenants. That is a matter for the Estates Commissioners, who have purchased 1,940 acres of untenanted land in the county. The Monthly Returns of Advances presented to Parliament give particulars of all such lands according as they are resold by the Commissioners and vested in purchasers.