§ Mr. DORISasked the Chief Secretary when the maps and papers relating to the Phibbs Irwin estate (in Chancery), situate in the parish of Turlough, county Mayo, were lodged with the Congested Districts Board, with a view to a sale; has the estate been inspected by the Board's valuers; and when the Board hope to be able to make an offer for the estate?
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§ Mr. BIRRELLThe maps and documents necessary for a preliminary inspection to be made of this estate are being lodged with the Congested Districts Board to-day, but the Board cannot say-when they will make an offer for its purchase.
§ Mr. DORISasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state when Mr. D. G. Fitzgerald lodged with the Congested Districts Board the maps of his estate situate in Turlough and Kildacamogue parishes, county Mayo, with a view to a sale thereof; when the estate was inspected by the Board's valuers; and can he explain why the Board has not yet made an offer to the landlord for the purchase of the estate?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe maps and documents necessary for a preliminary inspection to be made of this property were lodged with the Congested Districts Board on 29th April. 1911, and the estate was inspected at the end of July, 1912. The Board have not yet issued an offer for the purchase of this estate.
§ Mr. DORISalso asked the Chief Secretary if he can state whether the owners of the Hunter estate, parish of Turlough, county Mayo, have lodged maps of the estate with the Congested Districts Board with a view to sale; and is he aware that the agent of the property promised in writing over two years ago to have the necessary maps and papers lodged forthwith?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to his question on this subject on the 17th October, to which I have nothing to add.
§ Mr. DORISlikewise asked the Chief Secretary whether the maps and other necessary papers relating to the Darcy estate, Turlough, county Mayo, were lodged with the Congested Districts Board over a year ago, with a view to a sale; and whether the Board have yet made an offer to the landlord for the purchase of the estate, and, if not, can he state, approximately, when an offer will be made?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe maps and documents necessary for a preliminary inspection to be made of this estate were lodged with the Congested Districts Board in November, 1911. The Board have not yet made an offer for the purchase of the property, but they hope to consider the question of doing so at their next meeting.
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§ Mr. DORISasked whether the Congested Districts Board have sold Ardagh House, with nine acres of land on the (late) Palmer estate, county Mayo, to a Mr. Savory; or for what term the house and lands, with gaming rights over the district, have been let to Mr. Savory, who had no previous connection with this congested estate?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Congested Districts Board have not sold Ardagh House to Mr. Savory, but they have let the house and nine acres of land to him on a lease for seven years from the 1st of April, 1911. The sporting rights over O'Ghillies Mountain, on the Sir R. Palmer estate, have been let to Mr. Savory up to the 1st March, 1913, and over the Jones estate adjoining up to the 1st March, 1914.
§ Mr. DORISasked whether the offer of Mr. Fitzgerald-Kenny to sell his estate in Mayo county to the Congested Districts Board includes 200 acres of untenanted grass lands; and will the Board refuse to negotiate with him until such lands, required for the relief of congestion on the tenanted portion of the estate, are included in the proposed sale?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe estate referred to has been offered for sale to the Congested Districts Board, but they have not yet had the property inspected, and cannot, therefore, give the information asked for.