Land Registry – Frequently Asked Questions
LR Form 4 – Application under Section 26(1) of the Act for first registration with possessory title
Application by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine under Section 26(1) of the Act for first registration with possessory title (Rule...
LR Rule 4 – Manner of registration
Information recorded shall identify the particular property or interest in the property that it is intended to affect; and no information shall refer...
LR Rule 11 – Applications for registration
(1) Every application for registration sent, delivered or transmitted to the Registry for registration by a person or a solicitor shall be accompanied...
LR Rule 13 – Additional evidence and enquiries
If the Authority at any time considers that the production of any further documents or evidence or the giving of any notice is...
LR Rule 14 – Applications for first registration
Every application for first registration of ownership under the Act, except an application under Rules 17, 19(3), 19(4), 20(1), 21 or 22, shall...
LR Rule 24 – Registration of recorded property
On the transfer of recorded property to a register under the Act – (a) all charges, incumbrances, leases and other rights on the...
LR Rule 26 – Property acquired under the Land Purchase Acts and on exchange
(1) Where, on first registration of property purchased under the Land Purchase Acts, the Authority is not satisfied that the granting of an...
LR Rule 27 – Notice of statutory restrictions
Where, on an application for the first registration of the ownership of property, it appears that the property is subject to restrictive or...
LR Rule 28 – Entries relative to mines and minerals
(1) Where, on an application for first registration of the ownership of property, no evidence is adduced as to the ownership of the...
LR Rule 32 – Application where ownership registered 30 years
Where the ownership of property purchased under the Land Purchase Acts has been registered for 30 years, the Authority may convert a possessory...
LR Rule 33 – Application where ownership registered 12 years under transfer for value
Where the ownership of property purchased under the Land Purchase Acts has been registered for over 12 years, and an applicant for the...
LR Rule 35 – Other applications for conversion of possessory title
(1) Every other application for the conversion of a possessory title into an absolute title in the case of property purchased under the...
LR Rule 38 – Notice, advertisement and enquiries before such conversions
Before conversion of a possessory title in a case to which the foregoing rule applies, the Authority- (a) may serve such notices as...
LR Rule 39 – Application for conversion of qualified title
An application to convert a qualified title into an absolute or good leasehold title shall be made in writing and shall be...
LR Rule 40 – Notice of intended conversion to be given
Before the conversion of a possessory title consequential on an examination of title, the Authority shall, if it considers it necessary – (a)...
LR Rule 41 – How burdens ascertained entered on conversion
On conversion of a possessory or qualified title, consequential on an examination of title under these Rules- (a) a burden ascertained to affect...
LR Rule 43 – Where deeds are deposited to create a lien
(1) Where, on an application for conversion of a possessory or qualified title, a person who claims a lien by way of equitable...
LR Rule 44 – Other examinations of title outside register
An application to examine the title of- (a) the lessor of a leasehold interest the ownership of which is registered with a good...
LR Rule 45 – Title to registered property acquired by possession
Pursuant to Section 49 of the Act, any person claiming to have acquired a title by possession to registered property may apply...
LR Rule 46 – Acquisition of easements and profits by prescription
(1) Pursuant to section 49A of the Act, any person claiming to be entitled to an easement or profit à prendre by...
LR Rule 47 – Form of affidavit of discovery
An affidavit of discovery made pursuant to Section 93 of the Act shall unless an application form is prescribed that includes the...
LR Rule 49 – First registration of trustee owner
Where an applicant for registration as owner or the registered owner, as the case may be, is a trustee, he/she may have entered...
LR Rule 50 – Notice to be given of proposed registration
Unless the Authority otherwise directs, no registration consequential on an examination of title shall be completed until the applicant, and such other persons...
LR Rule 52 – Form of instruments
LR Rule 53 – Applications or instruments in improper form
If it appears to the Authority that any application or instrument is improper in form or in substance or is not clearly expressed...
LR Rule 54 – Evidence of execution of instruments
The execution of every application except an application by a solicitor, and of every instrument shall be attested by a witness. The execution...
LR Rule 55 – Evidence of execution of instrument by attorney
Where an application or instrument is executed by attorney, the power of attorney, or a certified copy made pursuant to Section 21 of...
LR Rule 56 – Identification of part of registered property transferred
(1) An instrument dealing with part of the property in a folio of the register shall be accompanied by an application map which...
LR Rule 57 – Presentation of dealing for registration
(1) Applications for registration may be sent, delivered or transmitted to such office(s) or address(es) of the Authority as it may designate. (2)...
LR Rule 59 – Notice in register of pending registration
Notice of every application received for registration shall, pending registration, be entered in the folio of the register to which it relates in...
LR Rule 62 – Stamp certificate issued by Revenue Commissioners
(1) Where a question arises in relation to a stamp certificate issued by the Revenue Commissioners and the solicitor for the applicant gives...
LR Rule 64 – Registration of trustee owner
Where an applicant for registration is a trustee, he/she may have entered in the register on the completion of the registration, an inhibition...
LR Rule 65 – Application by registered owner for amendment
An application by the registered owner for the amendment of his/her name or address or description in the register shall be in Form...
LR Rule 66 – Application for registration of trustees
An application for registration of trustees who are owners of registered land by virtue of the Act of 2009 shall be in Form...
LR Rule 68 – Form of lease
A lease of registered land shall be in Form 31.
LR Rule 69 – Registration of transferee who is a trustee
Where a transfer is made to a transferee who is a trustee of the property transferred, he/she may have entered in the register...
LR Rule 70 – Registration under a transfer or vesting order on sale in execution of order of court
(1) A transfer on sale by a registered owner (or by his/her personal representative or by a person appointed in that behalf by...
LR Rule 71 – Effect of covenant to pay rent or indemnify may be noted in register
On a transfer of property subject to an existing rent or to a burden appearing in the register, a covenant in the transfer...
LR Rule 73 – Registration under grant reserving rent
A transfer of freehold property by a grant in perpetuity reserving a rent shall be given effect to by registering the grantee as...
LR Rule 74 – Registration of companies
(1) A company within the meaning of the Companies Acts that applies for registration under a transfer shall produce a certificate by the...
LR Rule 75 – Registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner
(1) Where, in a case to which Section 60 of the Act applies, the ownership of registered property passes to another person under...
LR Rule 76 – Notice of application for registration under transfer over-reaching estate or interest of registered owner
(1) The notice of an application for registration in defeasance of the estate or interest of a registered owner referred to in Section...
LR Rule 77 – Cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner
(1) On the registration of an owner under Section 60 of the Act, other than as provided by Rule 70, the following registered...
LR Rule 78 – Notice of cancellation of burdens on transfer over-reaching the estate or interest of registered owner
The Authority shall serve notice in Form 28 on the registered owner (if any) of burdens and notices which are to be cancelled...
LR Rule 79 – Registration of transfer under power of sale
(1) On the registration of a transfer under a power of sale under Section 62(9) of the Act notice shall be served in...
LR Rule 80 – Registration of trustees or assignees of bankrupt owner and re-registration of the owner
(1) The assignees in bankruptcy of a registered owner who has been adjudicated a bankrupt may be registered as owners in his/her place,...
LR Rule 82 – Registration of local authority under statute
Registration of a local authority as owner of property that has vested in it under statute in defeasance of the estate or interest...
LR Rule 83 – Registration of dispositions of recorded property
(1) Every application for registration under a disposition or transmission of recorded property transferred to and entered in a register under the Act...
LR Rule 84 – Registration of new trustee of friendly society
(1) The name of a new trustee of a Friendly Society or of a branch thereof appointed pursuant to Section 25(2) of the...
LR Rule 85 – Application for registration where registered owner died prior to 1st June, 1959
(1) On the death prior to 1st June, 1959 of a sole registered owner of property, or the survivor of several registered owners...
LR Rule 87 – Transfer by personal representative(s) on death testate to person entitled
(1) A transfer of property to a person who claims to be by law entitled to the property of a deceased registered full...
LR Rule 89 – Application for registration by personal representative entitled on intestacy
(1) An application for registration as owner by a personal representative who claims to be entitled to property of an intestate registered full...
LR Rule 90 – Application for registration on death of person entitled but not registered as owner
Where a person dies entitled to be registered as owner of property, but not registered as owner, in the case of a death...
LR Rule 91 – Transmission on death of owner of charge or other burden
On the death of the registered owner of a charge or other burden, an application for registration as owner by a person claiming...
LR Rule 92 – Note of death of registered owner
On the death testate or intestate of a registered owner of property who is not registered as a limited owner or as a...
LR Rule 93 – Application for registration of successor of limited owner
(1) On the determination of the estate or interest of a limited owner, an application for registration by a person claiming under the...
LR Rule 94 – Application for registration by survivor or survivors of joint tenants
(1) Where one of two or more persons registered as joint tenants dies, the surviving joint tenant or tenants shall on application be...
LR Rule 95 – Registration pursuant to court order
An application for registration pursuant to an order of the court shall be made by lodging in the Registry an official copy of...
LR Rule 96 – The assent to registration of burdens that is to be given by persons other than the owner
(1) Pursuant to Section 69(2) of the Act, it is hereby prescribed that the concurrence of the under-mentioned persons shall be accepted in...
LR Rule 97 – How assent to registration of burden is to be given
(1) The concurrence of a person (other than the Authority) authorised to concur in the registration of a burden shall be given by...
LR Rule 98 – How burden may be entered
Where an instrument or a copy thereof authorised by these Rules is filed in the Registry and the instrument creates, or assents to...
LR Rule 99 – Note in register where statutory priority for burden claimed
(1) An applicant who applies for registration of a burden that he/she claims has priority over other burdens by virtue of a statute...
LR Rule 100 – Instrument creating two or more burdens and priority thereof
Where an instrument lodged for registration creates two or more burdens on the property registered, the priority in which the burdens are to...
LR Rule 101 – Evidence on which a burden may be cancelled or modified
(1) On the application of any person interested in a registered burden or in the property on which it is registered, the Authority...
LR Rule 102 – Application for cancellation of charge by electronic means
An application for the cancellation of the entry of a charge may be made to the Authority by electronic means where the Authority...
LR Rule 103 – Application for cancellation of Property Adjustment Order
An application for cancellation of a Property Adjustment Order pursuant to Section 9 or 18 of the Family Law Act, 1995 or Section...
LR Rule 104 – Where burden may be cancelled as extinguished
Where the registered owner of a burden becomes the registered owner of the property on which it is a burden, the Authority may...
LR Rule 105 – Forms of charge, transfer of charge and release
A charge for the payment of money, and a transfer and release thereof, shall be made by instruments in such one of Forms...
LR Rule 106 – Registration of charge created by a company
Where, on the registration of a charge created by a company within the meaning of the Companies Acts or on the registration of...
LR Rule 108 – Sub-charges
(1) The registered owner of a charge may charge it in the same manner as the registered owner of land may charge his/her...
LR Rule 110 – Registration of judgment mortgage
(1) Application for registration of a judgment mortgage as a burden on registered property pursuant to Section 116 of the Act of 2009...
LR Rule 110A – Registration of judgement mortgage
(1) Application for registration of a judgement mortgage as a burden on registered property in execution of a judgement for the payment of...
LR Rule 110B – Registration of judgement mortgage
LR Rule 111 – Evidence on registration of judgment mortgage
An application for registration of a judgment mortgage shall contain a statement that to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief, the...
LR Rule 112 – Notice of registration of judgment mortgage
(1) Notice of the registration of a judgment mortgage in the Registry shall be sent by the Authority to the registered owner of...
LR Rule 113 – Application to cancel entry of judgment mortgage on grounds of invalidity
(1) Where an entry of notice of the deposit of an affidavit of judgment under the Judgment Mortgage (Ireland) Act, 1850 or an...
LR Rule 114 – Cancellation of entry of judgment mortgage validly registered
Subject to an inhibition in the register to the contrary, an entry of notice of the deposit of an affidavit of judgment or...
LR Rule 115 – Lease
(1) An application for registration of a lease duly created after first registration of the property affected as a burden shall be made...
LR Rule 116 – Power to charge and trust to secure money
(1) A trust for securing money and a power to charge or other power vested in any person virtute officii shall be registered...
LR Rule 117 – Lien for unpaid purchase money
(1) An application for registration of a lien for unpaid purchase money shall be made in writing signed by the vendor or his/her...
LR Rule 118 – Judgement or order of court
An application for the registration of a judgement or order of a court as a burden shall be made in writing signed by...
LR Rule 119 – Lis Pendens
(1) An application for the registration of a lis pendens as a burden shall be made in Form 64. It shall be signed...
LR Rule 121 – Easement or profit à prendre
(1) Every application for the registration of an easement or profit à prendre as a burden shall be accompanied by an application map...
LR Rule 122 – Form of caution, affidavit or certificate in support and notice
(1) A caution against dealings by a registered owner shall be in Form 70. The caution shall be signed by the cautioner or...
LR Rule 123 – Warning notice to cautioner
(1) Whenever – (a) an application in writing for the discharge of a caution is made by the registered owner of the property...
LR Rule 124 – Application by registered owner for discharge of caution
An application by a registered owner for the discharge of a caution shall state the grounds of his/her application, as, for instance, that...
LR Rule 125 – Procedure on appearance by cautioner to a warning notice
(1) A cautioner or his/her personal representative may appear before the Authority or deliver a statement in writing at the Registry, at any...
LR Rule 126 – Withdrawal of caution or consent of cautioner to dealing
(1) A caution may be withdrawn at any time either as against the whole or any part of the property to which it...
LR Rule 127 – Lapse of caution
Where the warning notice required by a caution has been given in respect of the whole of the property to which it relates...
LR Rule 128 – Form of inhibition
(1) An inhibition for the protection of an unregistered right or interest may be in the terms of one of the clauses in...
LR Rule 129 – Entry of inhibition on consent
(1) An inhibition for the protection of an unregistered right or interest affecting the property of a registered owner may be entered in...
LR Rule 130 – Application for inhibition where there is no consent
(1) An application to the Authority for the entry of an inhibition, other than one the entry of which is authorised on the...
LR Rule 131 – Procedure on application for inhibition
(1) The Authority may refuse to enter an inhibition applied for unless modified in such manner as it shall direct. (2) Where the...
LR Rule 132 – Procedure on objection to inhibition
(1) Any person to whom notice of an application for an inhibition is sent may apply to the Authority, within the time stated,...
LR Rule 133 – Modification or discharge of registered inhibition
(1) Any person to whom notice of an application for an inhibition is sent may apply to the Authority, within the time stated,...
LR Rule 134 – Application in anticipation of dealing inhibited without Authority’s order or approval
(1) An application may be made to the Authority in anticipation of an intended dealing with property subject to an inhibition in the register...
LR Rule 135 – Procedure on lodgement of dealing inhibited without notice to specified persons
(1) Where an inhibition is entered in the register restricting dealings except after notice to a specified person, the notice to be sent...
LR Rule 136 – Inhibition under order of court
An entry of an inhibition under an order of a court shall state that it is made pursuant to that order.
LR Rule 137 – Entry of notice of certain burdens that affect without registration
(1) Notice of the existence of any burden specified in Section 72(1) of the Act shall be given by an entry in the...
LR Rule 138 – Entry of notice of exemption from certain burdens under Section 72(2) of the Act
Notice of the exemption of specified property from any former crown rent, quit rent, ecclesiastical tithe rentcharge, payment in lieu of tithe or...
LR Rule 139 – Entry of conclusiveness of a boundary of property
Every entry in the register of the conclusiveness of a boundary shall be made by stating therein the physical boundary of the property...
LR Rule 140 – Entry of boundary ascertained by Land Judge’s conveyance
A boundary defined by one of the instruments specified in Section 86 of the Act shall not be entered in the register as...
LR Rule 141 – Entry of boundary by agreement
(1) An application by owners of adjoining property for entry in the register of the boundary between their property, or part of it,...
LR Rule 142 – Settlement of boundary on transfer
The boundary between registered property transferred by a registered owner and other registered property of which he/she is the registered owner may be...
LR Rule 143 – Removal of description of infancy
The description of a registered owner of property as an infant or minor shall be removed from the register on an application in...
LR Rule 144 – Entry in register on conversion of a registered renewable lease
On production in the Registry of a grant in perpetuity of unregistered property made under the provisions of any enactment other than the...
LR Rule 145 – Limited Ownership
Where property is registered in the name of a limited owner or an infant or minor, an entry in Form 85 may...
LR Rule 146 – Form of Registry maps
(1) Registry maps shall be maintained in paper form or in electronic form, or partly in one form and partly in the other...
LR Rule 147 – Contents of Registry maps
(1) There shall be shown on the appropriate registry maps- (a) a plan or plans of the property described in each...
LR Rule 148 – Persons who may represent minors
(1) A minor may be represented for all or any of the purposes of the Act by his/her guardian (if any)...
LR Rule 149 – Appointment of person to represent a minor
(1) Where there is no person authorised by the foregoing rule to represent a minor or where someone other than such person...
LR Rule 192 – Registration with possessory title
Where it appears from the register that the burdens arising from the interest vested in the purchaser of the original holding under the...
Digitisation Protocol
5 of 2011- Partial Discharges (Stand Alone)
Office Notice No. 5 of 2011
3 of 2011 – Cases moving from Examiners’ Areas to Dealings Divisions
5 of 2010 – Applications in Person
6 of 2006 – Powers of person entitled to be registered as owner of land or charge
Office Notice No. 6 of 2006