PROGRESS OF LAND PURCHASE.

Evening Star, Issue 14053, 7 May 1909, Page 2

PROGRESS OF LAND PURCHASE.

The Land Commission has issued a shaded map showing the progress of land purchase in Ireland by counties and provinces. It deals with purchases up to April 30, 1908, and the total amount of land purchase under all the Purchase Acts is set out roughly as follows : Total area. Bought. County. Acres. Acres. Cork 1,775,000 925,030 Limerick (Jot), 000 3 > r ',ooo Kerry 1, 00',000 s 75,000 T pperary ... I,oo’ ,003 450,000 W>tsrford ... 43u,000 200,000 Cl n 780,000 220,000 Sligo 400,000 150,000 Roscommon ... 525,000 325,000 -Mayo 1,100,000 390.000 Leitrim ... ... 350,000 190,000 Galway 1,325,000 450,000 Wicklow 475,000 180,000 Welford 475.000 330,000 Westmeath ... 425,000 170,000 Queen’s County ... 420,000 160,000 Meath 025,000 300,000 Louth 200,000 120,000 Longford 250,000 100,000 King’s County ... 400,000 180,000 Kilkenny ... 550,000 300,000 Kildare 400,000 200,000 Dublin 200,000 G0.030 Carlow 210,000 GojoOO Tyrone 750,000 300,000 Monagbam ... 300,000 120,000 Londonderry ... 480,000 250,000 Donegal 1,000,000 210,000 Cavan 420,000 150,000 Armagh 300,000 170.C00 Antrim 080,000 290,000 Fermanagh ... 390,000 180,OCO Down 550,000 220,000 In the official diagram are shown by different shadings the extent of land purchase under previous Acts, the land bought and vested under the Act of 1903, and the land bought but not vested under that measure. For instance (says the * Irish People’) though the Congested Districts Board had been operating in Mayo for ten or twelve years before the Act of 1903 was passed, the amount of land bought in that county was barely one hundred thousand acres. There has been, bought in it under the Wyndham Act and by the Congested Districts Board 290.000 acres. In Cork there was bough! under the Ashbourne and Balfour Acts 250.000 acres, and under the Wyndham Act 700,000 acres, and Jf -we, take into account the sales past six months the figure would" now probably be nearer to a million acres. Of the total acieago in Ireland of 18,000,000,' there was bought on April 31 eight million acres. In Monster, of 5,750,000 acres there was purchased 2,750,000. In Connaught, of 3,000,000 acres the quantity purchased was less than 1,500,000. Of 4,500,000 acres in Leinster 2,000,000 were bought, and exactly the same quantity in Ulster out of an acreage of 5,000,000. In Munster the land bought under the Wyndham Act amounted to 1,950,000 acres. In Connaught the land bought under the Act of 1903 was 1,100,000 acres; in Lein* star, 1,400,000 acres, and in Ulster 1.200.000 acres.