§ Mr. DANIEL BOYLEasked the Chief Secretary if his attention has been called to the memorial of congests living on the seaboard district of the parishes of Lacken and Kilcummin, Killala union, county Mayo, for a continuance of turbary rights enjoyed by them from time immemorial from the bogs of Ballybeg, Carrow-machane, and Carrowmore, on the Pringle estate, recently acquired by the Congested Districts Board; and whether, in view of the poverty of the petitioners, their isolated position, and of the fact that a fuel supply can be obtained from no other source within reasonable distance, the Congested Districts Board can arrange for them to remain in undisturbed enjoyment of the turbary facilities they have hitherto possessed?
§ Mr. BIRRELLMy attention has been called to the memorial referred to. The Congested Districts Board inform me that if the cutting of the bog on the Pringle1928W estate continues at the same rate as during previous years there would in a few years be no turf left for the tenants. In these circumstances the Board directed that persons who were not tenants on the estate and had been purchasing turbary there from year to year were to be notified that they could no longer be supplied. The bogs will be very carefully surveyed, and if they are satisfied that any turbary can be set aside for persons who are not landholders on the estate they will be glad to do so. Turbary will be supplied on usual terms this year to a restricted number of those persons who had been in the habit of getting it on the property, and who cannot for this season obtain a supply elsewhere.