Landlord and Tenant (Ireland) Act, 1870

Exception in case of lands required for labourers cottages.

10. Any landlord may, after six months notice in writing, to be served upon the tenant, or left at his house, resume possession from a yearly tenant of so much land (not to exceed in the whole one twenty-fifth part of any individual holding), as he may require for the bonâ fide purpose of erecting thereon one or more labourers cottages, with or without gardens attached, and such resumption of land shall not, unless the Court shall be of opinion that same was unreasonable, be deemed a disturbance of the tenant within the meaning of this Act, and shall not subject the landlord to any claim for compensation, except in respect of improvements, beyond an abatement of rent proportionate to the annual value of the land so taken by the landlord.