asked the Minister for Fisheries whether he is aware (a) that the tenants on the Drummond Estate, Kerry, some of whom have purchased under the Irish Land Act, 1908, and others under the Land Act, 1923, and who reside in the following townlands: Shanacluan, Ballyleddir, Gort-boy, Gortnascarry, Brainlee, Glencuttane, Cooleanig and Geraha, are entitled according to the agreement signed, to a definite acreage of turbary; (b) that the turbary has not yet been allotted; (c) that the turf season is now overdue, and these tenants have not yet cut turf; and (d) when each of these tenants will be informed of the position and extent of his section of turbary.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - DRUMMOND ESTATE, KERRY.
The Drummond Estate was the subject of proceedings for sale by the vendor direct to the tenants under the Irish Land Act, 1903, and purchase agreements signed by the parties were lodged with the Land Commission. There is no reference in any of these purchase agreements to the question of turbary but it was ascertained by the Land Commission when dealing with the estate that tenants in the townlands referred to had been allowed by the vendor to cut turf on a bog situated in the townland of Glencuttaun Lower. It was the vendor's intention that this bog should be vested in trustees on behalf of the tenants cutting turbary thereon but as it formed portion of six tenanted holdings this could not be done and the six holdings were vested in the respective tenants thereof in accordance with their purchase agreements. The Land Commission are at present preparing Regulations under Section 21 of the Irish Land Act, 1903, as extended by Section 42 of the Land Act, 1923, under which there will be conferred on the tenants in need of turbary rights of turbary on the bog in Glencuttaun Lower. Copies of proposed Regulations have been served on all parties affected; some of them have lodged objections and the Land Commission will not be in a position to complete the Regulations and to point out to the tenants boundaries of their turbary plots until these objections have been finally disposed of. An Inspector is at present engaged on inquiries as to these objections with a view to settling the disputed matters and any case that cannot be so settled will be listed for hearing before the Commissioners.