Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They are stored in a building in Portlaoise at the moment. We hope that they are in safe keeping. One of the particularly important issues that is coming up is the issue of bog plots, that is, turf plots on bogs. They are recorded on many of these documents. A lot of the original turbary rights and the folios recording them derive from the division of the old estates through the Irish Land Commission. Information on these matters is contained in those documents. In a couple of cases I have dealt with over the years, that was the only place this information could be found. It is important.