§ Mr. NEWMANasked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that the town-lands of Ballyheen and Adamstown, which were compulsorily acquired some years previously from Sir John Garden, of Templemore, by the Estates Commissioners for the purpose of sub-division among evicted tenants are still unoccupied; and whether he will say if such division of the lands has not taken place owing to no application from any evicted tenant or other suitable person having been received?
§ Mr. RUSSELLThe Estates Commissioners inform me that the lands of Ballyheen have been allotted to evicted tenants who are in occupation of them. The lands of Adamstown have been let temporarily pending completion of a scheme for their final allocation. The difficulty in preparing the scheme is not due to there being no applicants for the lands, but because there are too many applications.