How do I find my property boundary in Ireland?

Most Irish property boundaries are recorded only as 'general boundaries' on the Land Registry map, meaning the mapped line shows the approximate position of the boundary but does not fix its exact legal location to the centimetre. This is different to some other jurisdictions with fixed, guaranteed boundaries, and it is one of the most common sources of confusion and dispute between neighbours. To get a first sense of your boundary, look at your title deeds or, if the land is registered, the folio and filed plan available through Tailte Éireann's landdirect.ie service.

The deeds or folio map should be read alongside physical evidence on the ground, such as existing walls, fences, hedges and mature trees, and cross-referenced with historic Ordnance Survey mapping where available, since older maps can show features that have since been altered or removed. Where the paper record and the physical features do not obviously match, or where you are planning to build close to the line, a desktop check is not enough.

For anything with real consequences, such as building an extension, resolving a dispute, or buying a site, the reliable approach is to instruct a chartered geomatics (land) surveyor to carry out a boundary identification survey, which combines the deeds, registry mapping and an on-site survey to pin down the boundary as accurately as the available evidence allows.