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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 13 Feb 1935

Vol. 54 No. 11

Written Answers. - Provision of New Holdings.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Carlow in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Kilkenny in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Cavan in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Clare in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Cork in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Donegal in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Dublin in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the county of Galway in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

Mr. Lynch

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Kerry in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Kildare in each of the calendar years, 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Sligo in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Leitrim in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Leix in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Offaly in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Limerick in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Westmeath in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Longford in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Louth in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Mayo in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Meath in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Monaghan in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Roscommon in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Tipperary in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Waterford in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Wexford in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the total number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new holdings in the County of Wicklow in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934 inclusive, and the total amount of land included in such holdings in each year.

The replies to the questions of Deputies Doyle, Fitzgerald, Holohan, O'Reilly, Burke, O'Leary, McMenamin, Brodrick, Lynch, Minch, Roddy, Rogers, Finlay, O'Higgins, Reidy, Fagan, MacEoin, Coburn, Fitzgerald-Kenney, Davitt, O'Reilly, O Braonáin, Morrissey, Wall, Esmonde, The O'Mahony and Deputy Costello are incorporated in the following tabular statement showing, by counties, the number of persons provided by the Land Commission with new agricultural holdings, on the division of untenanted land (as distinct from enlargements of existing holdings for the relief of congestion and from ordinary rearrangements of tenanted land) in each of the calendar years 1925 to 1934, and the total areas of land included in such holdings in each year.

The figures, however, must be taken as only approximate, as owing to some of the records (particularly those of the earlier years) not being readily available partial estimation has been necessary in order to complete the statement.

STATEMENT showing, by Counties, the number of person provided by the Land Commission with new agricultural holdings on the division of untenanted land in each of the Calendar Years 1925 to 1934, and the total area of such holdings.

COUNTY

Year 1925

Year 1926

Year 1927

Year 1928

Year 1929

Year 1930

Year 1931

Year 1932

Year 1933

Year 1934

Total Period 1925-1934

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

No.

Area acres

Carlow

2

95

16

286

49

1,449

21

481

2

24

3

26

2

27

95

2,388

Kilkenny

1

79

3

194

13

193

6

797

8

409

3

16

1

623

35

2,311

Cavan

2

48

2

49

3

114

1

48

20

612

10

191

4

360

12

428

4

189

1

35

59

2,074

Clare

1

8

18

774

62

1,802

33

1,543

16

605

35

1,005

34

873

4

558

28

336

43

195

274

7,699

Cork

16

661

13

591

14

351

26

760

1

40

28

233

4

82

3

15

1

2,070

106

4,803

Donegal

8

189

11

260

1

231

7

74

5

158

8

144

1

58

41

1,114

Dublin

1

36

15

1,549

6

367

16

199

3

145

1

187

9

247

1

37

19

469

71

3,236

Galway

75

1,765

193

5,684

239

8,531

143

6,246

148

5,176

389

5,579

182

9,566

90

3,134

123

4,560

59

1,726

1,641

51,967

Kerry

11

276

1

284

41

1,498

14

457

8

211

5

201

1

35

5

79

4

862

90

3,903

Kildare

11

698

42

1,591

42

811

20

988

26

1,226

33

1,591

23

755

27

654

22

683

246

9,002

Sligo

2

57

26

605

39

618

30

742

16

176

20

224

27

523

33

1,504

11

90

16

312

220

4,851

Leitrim

10

284

6

307

1

21

12

250

4

80

2

172

16

216

7

262

1

16

5

34

64

1,642

Leix

6

365

20

350

31

651

32

2,148

10

439

14

298

7

104

30

522

150

4,877

Offaly

9

349

21

463

64

1,742

41

2,316

11

668

65

2,870

40

1,043

27

1,099

38

1,057

22

718

838

12,325

Limerick

16

356

43

1,007

9

166

58

1,004

26

561

3

32

10

233

3

14

5

53

173

3,426

Westmeath

33

998

7

432

9

606

21

387

59

2,138

68

1,993

39

1,041

14

335

3

73

3

103

256

8,106

Longford

23

658

10

233

3

7

23

678

1

40

3

84

5

316

2

63

3

132

3

71

76

2,282

Louth

18

1,751

4

312

3

61

5

154

3

58

1

24

5

118

6

66

8

137

53

2,681

Mayo

80

2,500

83

3,380

97

4,081

193

5,822

26

1,350

58

1,464

59

1,399

29

1,767

34

1,622

72

1,671

731

25,056

Meath

24

995

13

704

63

2,893

66

2,139

87

2,500

81

3,932

63

3,058

82

2,707

72

2,445

48

1,357

599

22,780

Monaghan

1

110

2

58

15

304

4

118

6

299

6

65

1

24

6

122

41

1,100

Roscommon

22

709

107

2,664

77

1,961

73

2,218

61

2,249

60

1,131

12

462

9

113

35

800

46

996

502

13,303

Tipperary

50

1,783

74

2,739

64

2,256

92

2,265

39

1,062

100

3,265

29

867

51

3,081

98

2,523

66

1,599

663

21,440

Waterford

11

685

7

154

1

16

6

325

4

119

1

78

1

8

8

49

39

1,434

Wexford

8

367

12

774

41

824

5

261

7

621

2

58

4

136

2

36

81

3,077

Wicklow

8

386

7

266

7

870

3

137

10

523

3

198

5

113

13

1,280

56

3,773

TOTAL

374

12,726

684

22,835

864

31,643

982

31,480

711

23,276

1,013

27,553

614

23,122

456

18,484

517

15,085

485

14,396

6,700

220,600

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