Land Registry Map for Registered Land in County Mayo

A Land Registry Map shows the registered extent of a property in County Mayo as the register records it, for information. It does not certify the plan under seal, which needs the Certified Map; fix the exact boundary line, which the general boundaries rule places outside the register; show who owns the land or the terms of a burden, which need the folio and the instrument; or cover land that has never been registered. The extent of a commonage share, whether unregistered ground has any plan, and the foreshore beyond the high water mark all fall outside what the map records.

One Mayo caveat in particular: commonage on mountain and blanket bog, registered in undivided shares among many owners. That is established by inspection, survey or the registered instruments, not from the record you are ordering here.

Mayo holdings carry a particular history in the record, and it explains a good deal of what a search turns up. Much of the county was reorganised through Land Commission dealings, and holdings vested and divided in that process frequently ended up as several separate folios rather than one – sometimes with parcels a considerable distance apart. Anyone treating a Mayo address as describing a single contiguous property is usually mistaken.

Blanket bog is the dominant ground type across much of the county, and turbary rights over it are commonly registered as appurtenant to a holding rather than as land within it. The turf bank a family has cut for generations may sit miles from the house and appear on the folio only as a right.

Gaeltacht districts run the length of the western seaboard, so townlands appear in Irish-language forms that differ from the postal spelling. Achill, the Mullet and the islands add their own complication: ground surveyed at a coarse scale, against an Atlantic edge that has not stayed where it was drawn.

Running through all of it is the general boundaries rule. However closely the plan appears to be drawn, the register is not conclusive as to where a boundary legally falls, and the title map shows approximately where a division runs rather than fixing it. A Land Registry Map for County Mayo is authoritative as to the registered extent, and it is the right document for seeing and understanding that extent – but where the same plan has to be produced under seal to a planning authority, a lender or a court, the Certified Map is what carries that weight. The ordinary map is for information; the certified one is for proof, and knowing which a given situation needs is frequently the most useful thing the map settles. Ordering the ordinary map first, rather than a certified plan by default, keeps the cost proportionate to the question – and where the certified plan does turn out to be needed, the map has already shown exactly what it will contain. Ordered from an address and delivered electronically, it is the quickest and cheapest way to see the registered extent before deciding anything further.

delivered electronically within 24 hours

The Land Registry Map is supplied as an electronic copy, sent to the email address you provide, so nothing waits on the post. Each map is checked against the property you described before it is sent out.

Where a property in County Mayo cannot be identified from the details supplied, or the land proves to be unregistered so that no title plan exists, we contact you rather than sending something that does not answer your question.