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Letter from Henry Doran to Matthew Nathan, 14 April 1916

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<address>23 Rutland Square,
<lb/>DUBLIN.</address>
<date>14th. April, 1916.</date>

<salute>Dear Sir Matthew,</salute>
Your letter with reference to Killorglin town,
<lb/>Ventry estate, was delivered to me last evening by hand,
<lb/>but I was unable to reply to it, as I have been confined
<lb/>to bed since Tuesday evening with a cold, and had no
<lb/>papers at my home dealing with the estate.

The facts relating to the matter in question
<lb/>are as follows: The Board offered to buy under the
<lb/>Land Purchase Acts the Ventry estate including the town
<lb/>of Killorglin. It has been the Board's practice to
<lb/>include in the purchase all such towns when they form
<lb/>part of an agricultural estate. On a valuation of
<lb/>the property it was ascertained that a number of holdings
<lb/>in the town of Killorglin were not in the occupation of <add>the</add> 
<lb/>direct tenants who paid their rent to Lord Ventry, but
<lb/>in a considerable number of cases they were <del><gap/></del><add>let by the direct
<lb/> tenants.</add>

The policy of the Board in dealing with such
<lb/>cases was explained to the people of Killorglin by me
<lb/>to the following effect: That no tenant could buy
<lb/>his holding under the Land Purchase Acts unless he was
<lb/>in occupation of it, and that consequently a middleman
<lb/>could only buy his holding for cash <add>down</add>. The Board would
<lb/>not put pressure of any kind on a middleman landlord to
<lb/>sell his property to the occupying tenant, yet if the<pb/>

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Letter from Henry Doran to Matthew Nathan, 14 April 1916

National Archives of Ireland

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