Re: Land registry-v- registry of deeds
"Just because a house is new doesnt mean it s more likely to be land registry, and similarly the fact that it is urban rather than rural has no bearing. "
Sorry to butt in Vanilla, but being rural does increase the likelihood of having a Land Registry Title. Almost all agricultural land in Ireland was bought out from landlords under the various land purchase schemes; It was the registration of these land purchase schemes which gave the opportunity to bulk-register land in the newly formed Land Registry.
So, if a house is built on former farmland, it is almost certain to be a Land Registry title. The exceptions (in rural areas) would be farms which were in the same family since before the formation of the State, farms attached to former poorhouses, hospitals or lunatic asylums (as they were called) and land owned by religious orders.