asked the Minister for Agriculture if he is aware that the De Clifford Estate, Mayo, taken over by the Congested Districts Board as far back as 1911, is still undivided, and that acute congestion exists in the townlands of Facefield, Coolaghbawn, Acres and Derroul, among the tenants whose valuation does not exceed £5, and whether it is intended to provide economic holdings for those tenants out of the untenanted lands on the estate.
CEISTEANNA.—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - DE CLIFFORD ESTATE, MAYO. QUESTION OF DIVISION.
Mr. HOGAN
This Estate has not been divided owing to the want of suitable land for enlargements. There was no untenanted land on the Estate, except bog; but there are large areas, including non-residential and other tenanted holdings, within a distance of a few miles which it will be possible to acquire under the powers of the Land Act, 1923, for the relief of local congestion. When the Land Commission come to deal with the district they will consider how far it may be necessary to migrate some of the tenants in the acutely congested townlands named in the question.