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Officially certified copy of the registered title plan
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A Certified Map is an officially certified copy of the registered title plan, showing the registered extent of a Carrick-on-Shannon property under official certification, and it is supplied together with the Certified Folio. Order it where somebody official has to rely on the plan. It certifies that the copy is true to the register at its date of issue; it does not make the mapped line conclusive.
Where a Carrick-on-Shannon matter turns on how much ground is registered – a planning application, a transfer of part, a boundary in dispute – the certified title plan is the document that proves it. It is posted as a sealed hard copy, because its standing rests on the certificate applied to it.
Supply the Carrick-on-Shannon address or folio number. The certified title plan and the Certified Folio are issued together under seal and posted to you within 15 working days.
Buy Certified MapDocument
Officially certified copy of the registered title plan
Supplied with
The Certified Folio - certified register entry included in the same order
Shows
The registered extent of the property, identified by plan reference
Delivery
By post within 15 working days
Format
Sealed physical document - no electronic version
Needed for
Planning applications, transfers of part, lending and court use
Boundaries
General boundaries - approximate, not conclusive
County register
County Leitrim
Faster option
Folio Search delivered electronically within 24 hours
The title plan shows the extent of registered land as the register maps it. A Certified Map is that plan reproduced and certified under seal as a true copy at a stated date, which is what allows a planning authority, a lender or a court to act on it without verifying it themselves.
The certificate speaks to one thing, and it is worth being precise about what. It states that this is a true copy of the registered map as at the date of issue – nothing more and nothing less. That is what allows a reader who did not obtain the document to act on it.
That distinction matters more than usual on Carrick-on-Shannon ground, where the local complication is river frontage, moorings and marina access rights, registered against adjoining land. A line drawn against water records where that water reached when the survey was made, and where the feature has since moved, the plan and the ground describe different lines. No ordinary dealing corrects the plan for it.
A Certified Map is the document a planning authority, a solicitor, a lender or a court office will expect when a registered extent has to be proved, and for that purpose it does the job completely. What it does not do is settle an argument about precisely where a boundary lies, which is resolved through the registered instruments, the physical evidence and, where it comes to it, the courts.
This is the point most people get wrong about registered mapping, so it is worth stating plainly. It does not make the mapped line conclusive. Registration in Ireland operates on general boundaries: the line shows approximately where the division between two properties runs, and certifying the copy does not change that.
What follows from that is practical. The plan identifies the registered Carrick-on-Shannon parcel and shows roughly what it covers, and for proving extent to a planning authority or a lender that is exactly enough. What it cannot do is answer a question about where the line sits to the metre: which side of it a wall stands on, whether a hedge was moved a decade ago, or how much ground a contested strip of access represents.
Those are resolved through the registered instruments, the physical evidence, agreement between neighbours, or the courts. There is a procedure for having a boundary conclusively fixed, but it requires precise mapping and the involvement of everyone affected, and it is rarely used. Assume the plan in front of you is a general boundaries plan, because almost certainly it is.
Three questions separate the documents cleanly. Does anything – the extent, the register entry, or both – have to be proved to a third party? Then this order, which supplies the certified plan and the certified folio together. Is the question simply who owns the property or what burdens sit on it, with nothing to prove to anyone? Then the Folio Search, returned within 24 hours. Does a registered right need its wording read rather than its route seen? Then the Instrument Copy. If the Carrick-on-Shannon address returns no folio at all, the title is unregistered and none of the above applies.
| Need | Product | Price |
|---|---|---|
| You need certified evidence of the extent for a planning or formal application | Certified Map | €149.99 |
| You want to know who owns it and what burdens are registered | Folio Search, within 24 hours | €32.99 |
| You need the register entry itself in certified form | Included - the Certified Folio comes with this order | €149.99 |
| You need the wording of a burden or a past transfer | Instrument Copy | €349.99 |
| You just want to see the extent for your own information | Ordinary title map | — |
| No folio exists for the Carrick-on-Shannon address | The title is unregistered - start with a folio search | €32.99 |
The certified plan is the right document in a defined set of situations, and the wrong one in others. Ownership, charges and the names of registered burdens are answered by the certified folio supplied alongside it rather than by the plan itself. What neither document carries is the wording of a burden, which comes from the registered instrument and is ordered separately.
It will also not resolve a boundary dispute. It shows the registered position, which is often useful context in a dispute, but the general boundaries rule means the plan is evidence of what is mapped rather than proof of where the line falls. Where a Carrick-on-Shannon boundary is genuinely contested, the plan is a starting document rather than a deciding one.
And where the property has never been registered, there is no title plan at all. Establishing that is the job of a folio search against the address, which will tell you within 24 hours whether a registered title exists.
Certified plans for Carrick-on-Shannon property are ordered in a fairly narrow set of situations, and it is worth knowing which one you are in before ordering.
River-bounded parcels need the certified plan wherever the watercourse forms the mapped division. Channels migrate over decades and the plan is not corrected for it, so the certified copy is evidence of the registered position rather than the present physical one.
Where a property carries a trading use, lenders and purchasers look closely at whether car parking, outbuildings and access ground are inside the registered extent. The certified plan is the document that answers it.
Apartment titles map the block rather than the unit interior. The certified plan is ordered to establish the registered extent of the scheme and any mapped areas that go with the unit, such as a designated space.
Need something faster while this is in the post? The Carrick-on-Shannon Folio Search is delivered electronically within 24 hours.
Order Certified MapIn practice, certified plans for Carrick-on-Shannon property are requested by:
Carrick-on-Shannon is a Shannon riverside town and boating centre, the county town of Leitrim, and that shapes what the registered mapping looks like. The market is built on waterway tourism and boating, alongside a small administrative and service economy, and that shows in the volume of extent enquiries.
Anyone reading a Carrick-on-Shannon plan tends to meet the same two points – river frontage, moorings and marina access rights, registered against adjoining land, and flood-liable riverside ground, a standing consideration on Shannon-adjacent property.
The practical consequence for mapping is that a Carrick-on-Shannon plan often needs reading rather than glancing at. Holiday and apartment development has created leasehold folio stock alongside older registered land, so the first question is usually which registered parcel the plan relates to and whether the holding runs to more than one.
One order, two certified documents: the Carrick-on-Shannon title plan and the certified register entry.
Order Certified MapDelivery is by post within 15 working days, and the Certified Folio is supplied alongside the map as one order. Because certification is applied to a physical document under seal, there is no electronic alternative – a scan of a certified map is simply a scan, and formal readers treat it as such.
Two things are worth doing if time is short. Order early, because 15 working days is roughly three calendar weeks. And order a Folio Search at the same time: it arrives electronically within 24 hours and answers ownership and burdens straight away.
Fast track delivery is available at an additional charge.
The certified title plan for a Carrick-on-Shannon property, supplied with the Certified Folio as one order and posted within 15 working days. Fast track delivery available.
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