GlenGlasker
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I'm looking at an auction property in the area I currently live in so I know the property and the area well. The house comes with a walled-in garden per the land maps, and to the side there has traditionally been access to enable you to drive around and park at the back of the house (on land that comes with the house, much like if your driveway was behind your house instead of in front of it). To do this you have to drive a few metres up what I had thought was a public road (small, boreen type road). Yesterday neighbours who live closest and further along the boreen erected gates at the entry to it meaning that access to the side entrance of the property is now blocked. I don't know the neighbours well enough to ask them about it but it's a bit of a red flag.
The land maps are unclear as to who owns this roadway - it definitely isn't part of the folio for the house I'm looking at or, according to the land maps, part of the neighbour's land. When I hover over it on the website it says it's not registered with the PRA. It's time sensitive with the auction coming up and my solicitor isn't sure he'll be able to look into it in advance of the auction. Is there anything I can do myself to try and figure out who owns the roadway?
If there are informal or formal disputes around boundaries etc. I don't want any part of buying the house (been there, done it) and the legal pack is very vague.
The land maps are unclear as to who owns this roadway - it definitely isn't part of the folio for the house I'm looking at or, according to the land maps, part of the neighbour's land. When I hover over it on the website it says it's not registered with the PRA. It's time sensitive with the auction coming up and my solicitor isn't sure he'll be able to look into it in advance of the auction. Is there anything I can do myself to try and figure out who owns the roadway?
If there are informal or formal disputes around boundaries etc. I don't want any part of buying the house (been there, done it) and the legal pack is very vague.