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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 28 Nov 1922

Vol. 1 No. 31

CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - A FARM IN LONGFORD.

SEAN O LAIDHIN

To ask the Minister for Agriculture if he is aware that the estate of the late G. More O'Ferrall, Esq., D.L., in the townland of Ballinroddy, in the parish of Ardagh, Co. Longford, Record No. 9873, Ordnance Sheet No. 19, was divided in 1916, and that one of the tenants was named Joseph Keane. And whether it was with the sanction of the Estates Commissioners a Sub-Commissioner, on June 3rd, 1920, changed the boundary between the lands of Joseph Keane and Mrs. Kate Keane, without notifying the former; and whether in the change some of Joseph Keane's land was allotted to Mrs. Keane, and the fall of water off Joseph Keane's land stopped, thereby causing considerable annoyance; and whether the Minister would see that Joseph Keane gets his full right to the land he is paying for.

In the division of untenanted land acquired on the More O'Ferrall estate under the Land Purchase Acts, the Estates Commissioners allotted parcels to Joseph Keane and Mrs. Kate Keane, the occupiers of small holdings in the neighbourhood. The boundary between the parcels is a wide bank with dykes on each side, and the centre of the bank is the boundary. There was subsequently a dispute between the parties as to the ownership of the bank, and an Assistant Inspector visited the lands and explained the position to both parties. He suggested as a settlement of the dispute that one party might agree to take the entire bank for half its length, and the other the remaining half, and the representatives of the parties appeared to approve of the proposal. It is understood that Joseph Keane subsequently applied to the District and afterwards to the Circuit Courts, and that they decided in favour of the settlement proposed by the Inspector. It is not apparent how such a settlement could interfere with the drainage of the lands.

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