Guidelines to Land Registration in Ireland

Presented by Proinnsias Ó Cillín BL, BSc (IT), MSc, Land Registration Consultant

1. Changing Times

2. Popular Queries

3. Avoiding Queries

4. Fundamental Mistakes

5. The NCT Attitude

6. Solicitors' Exposure

7. Required Certification of Title

8. Qualified Title

9. Conversion of Title

10. Adverse Possession

11. Documentary First Registration

12. More Changes Coming

1. Changing Times

Land Registration in Ireland (and the rest of the world) is changing, as it embraces Information Technology more and more. 

As the system develops, Solicitors take more responsibility for what they put on the Register.  Entries into the Land Registry’s data will eventually be made directly by Solicitors.

Map online

Computerisation of the Land Registry map means that inspection of the Map can now be done online.  Of course, if you want a certified result of a map search, an official search can still be requisitioned.  The search can be commissioned on line, following which the result of the search will be posted.

Re-design of the Form 17

§         Not so long ago, the Form 17 requested “registration in the above mentioned Folio of the ownership and/or burdens … arising under the documents set out in the Schedule hereto.” 

§         Now the Form 17 requires the solicitor to specify exactly what registration is applied for.

Changing Practices = Changing Queries

The changed nature of the Form 17 means that production of the Land Certificate has lost its place as the most popular Land Registry query.  I understand that the most popular query now is “Problems with the Form 17.”

 

Proinnsias Ó Cillín

Land Registration Forum

Societal Information System (project 1997 - 1999)

Solicitors: Assistance with Land Registry applications: E-mail me at killeens@indigo.ie
History of Land Registration in Ireland

History of Land Tenure in Ireland

Demonstration: Land Registration system of the Future?

A Model for Land Registration in the Information Age

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