asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries whether he can state if the Land Commission have acquired, or intend to acquire, the bog on the Duke Estate, in the townland of Mountown, parish of Geevagh, County Sligo, for sub-division among the tenants cutting turf thereon.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral—Answers. - Acquisition of Sligo Bog.
The Land Commission have not acquired, and do not propose to acquire, any bog on the Duke Estate.
Regulations under the provisions of Section 21 of the Irish Land Act, 1903, and Section 42 of the Land Act, 1923, providing for the exercise of turbary rights by 32 persons on the bog on Thomas Redington's holding in Mountown have been made, and will be put into operation as soon as possible.