All the lands (approx 250 acres of grazing, arable, callow) were taken over by the Land Commission in the early 1940s and under the guidance of a young local Auctioneer, Dermot Staunton, they divided it between four resident families: Stephen Cogavin; James Cogavin (brothers); Patrick Boland; Michael Kelly - all of whom, except James Cogavin, had homes in the townland of Tulrush.