asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries whether he will state when it is the intention of his Department to complete the purchase on the Drummond estate, near Beaufort, Killarney, by vesting the remaining holdings of the 50 tenants on this estate, and marking the boundaries and constructing passages through turbary on said estate.
Written Answers. - Drummond Estate (Killarney).
A rental schedule for the Drummond estate, including some 58 holdings near Beaufort, has been lodged with the Land Commission to enable them to collect compounded arrears of rent and payment in lieu of rent under the Land Act, 1923, but the further prescribed particulars (maps and schedules of areas, etc.) to enable the lands to be vested in the Land Commission under the Act have not yet been lodged. The owner's agents, on being written to concerning the non-lodgment of the prescribed particulars, have promised to lodge them at an early date.
asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries whether he will state when it is the intention of his Department to subdivide and mark out the boundaries and construct passages on the turbary set aside for distribution amongst the 36 tenants who purchased under the 1909 Act on the Drummond estate, in the townlands of Gortbee, Geraha, Shanacloon, Keel and Ballyledder, near Beaufort, Killarney, and if he is aware that the turbary in question is situate in Upper Glencuttane and Lower Glencuttane.
The Land Commission are at present engaged on the preparation of Regulations under Section 21 of the Irish Land Act, 1903, as extended by Section 42 of the Land Act, 1923, in respect of the turbary situated within the ambit of 8 vested holdings in the townland of Glencuttaun Lower. Under these regulations it is proposed that 35 purchasers of holdings under the 1903 Act, and 8 under the 1909 Act, situated on the estate of A.C. Drummond, Record No. E.C. 8035, together with 53 tenants on the estate of Charles Drummond, pending for sale under the Land Act of 1923, who have holdings in the townlands mentioned, will be accommodated with turbary plots for use on the said holdings.
The Land Commission understand that there is practically no turbary in the townland of Glencuttaun Upper. Several objections to the proposed regulations have been lodged with the Land Commission, and these are at present engaging the attention of the Commissioners with a view to arriving at a settlement. The matter will involve the preparation of supplemental regulations in respect of the turbary on one holding, and probably the hearing of some of the objections by the Land Commission in court. As soon as these matters are disposed of the regulations will be made absolute and the boundaries of the plots will then be defined, such roads or passages as are necessary constructed, and the parties put into occupation of the plots.