asked the Minister for Lands if he will state the area and valuation of (a) the land acquired, or reserved, by the Land Commission in County Mayo, and (b) the land still in their hands undivided.
Written Answers. - Land Commission Operations in Mayo.
In County Mayo, the Land Commission and the Congested Districts Board have acquired and divided a total area of approximately 317,000 acres of untenanted land, of which 65,000 acres were acquired under the Land Acts, 1923-39, and 252,000 acres were on estates acquired by the Congested Districts Board and the Estates Commissioners under Acts prior to the Land Act of 1923.
There are in hands for division lands acquired under the Land Acts, 1923-39, to the extent of about 11,750 acres (together with some undivided shares of commonage), of which only about 4,500 acres are arable. Scarcely any arable land remains on hands in Congested Districts Board estates, but there is a considerable residue of mountain and turbary of little value and difficult to dispose of finally. The precise area of such land is not readily available.
Statistics are not recorded of the valuation of lands acquired or on hands for division.