asked the Minister for Fisheries (a) who are the present owners of the Tureenamult Limestone Quarries, situated in Gneeveguilla, Rathmore, Kerry; (b) if the present Trustees are subject to the control of the Irish Land Commission, and (c) what amount of money is now held over for the working of these quarries.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - CO. KERRY QUARRIES.
(a) On the occasion of the sale of the Kenmare estates under the Land Purchase Acts the vendor conveyed the limestone quarry at Tureenamult to the following persons in trust for the benefit of the tenant purchasers:—
Cornelius Moynihan of Leamyglissane;
Edward Buckley of Knockacopple, Rathmore;
Daniel Cooper of Knockmanagh;
James M. Fleming, Inch, Kilcummin;
John M. Crowley of Gortaeordeen, Headford;
Daniel M. O'Connor of Shinnagh, Rathmore.
It is understood that Cornelius Moynihan resigned in 1924. The power of appointing new Trustees is vested in the surviving or Continuing Trustees or Trustee but no person may be appointed a Trustee who is not an owner of land on what was formerly an estate of the Earl of Kenmare. The Deed of Trust is dated the 10th July, 1917, and the Land Commission have no information as to who may be the present Trustees.
(b) The Trustees are not subject to the control of the Land Commission save that the Trusts may not be revoked or altered without their consent.
(c) At or prior to the execution of the Deed of Trust referred to the vendor paid to the Trustees a sum of £1,150 in trust to invest same in any authorised stock funds or securities and to apply the dividends and income arising from such investments or such portions of the £1,150 as they may think proper in defraying the costs and expenses incidental to the execution of the Trusts.