Land Registry Map for Registered Land in County Monaghan

A Land Registry Map shows the registered extent of a property in County Monaghan 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. Whether an irregular drumlin boundary matches the ground, anything across the State border, and whether unregistered ground has any plan all fall outside what the map records.

Reading a Monaghan plan means knowing what the ground behind it looks like. Monaghan is drumlin country of small rounded hills and wet hollows, with the frontier on three sides, and the registered stock is small scattered holdings, intensive agricultural units and township housing.

Holdings commonly span several separated parcels, each retaining its own registration, so establishing which registered parcel a plan relates to – and whether the holding runs to more than one – is frequently the substantive part of the work rather than a preliminary to it.

Two features affect Monaghan boundaries in particular. The first is intensive agricultural buildings standing on small holdings, where the register records the ground but not the licensing. The second is landlocked fields in the hollows between drumlins, dependent on registered rights of way. Because registration operates on general boundaries, the plan records these approximately; it does not resolve them.

Proximity to the border adds that a holding on the fringe is mapped only up to the State boundary, the register and its mapping stopping there, and some older ground remains unregistered with no plan to copy.

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 Monaghan 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 Monaghan 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.