Certified Map for New Ross Properties in County Wexford

Making a planning application
The local authority normally requires a certified plan of the registered extent with an application.

Proving the depth of a burgage plot
Frontages are uniform and depths are not, and only the plan shows which is which.

Mapping rear yards and stores
Ground behind the frontage has been divided repeatedly, and the plan shows what is registered.

Transferring part of a holding
Any dealing with part of a folio requires a map, and a certified copy is the usual starting point.

Proving extent on the quays
Port holdings bound the waterfront and are registered as substantial parcels.

Administering an estate
Executors prove what a deceased owned by extent as well as by name.

Selling a town centre property
Certified evidence of extent prepared early removes a common source of delay in requisitions.

Raising a mortgage on commercial premises
Lenders want the security they are taking shown on a certified plan.

Mapping access up a lane or steps
Where a right of way was formally granted it is generally drawn.

Satisfying a request you did not expect
Where a planning officer, a lender or another solicitor asks specifically for a certified plan of a New Ross property, an ordinary printout will usually be sent back, and ordering the right document first saves the round trip.

Recording the position before something changes
Where works, a sale or a division are in prospect, a certified plan fixes what the register showed beforehand, which is frequently worth having later.

New Ross retains its medieval plan more completely than most Irish towns, and that plan is what makes the certified map indispensable here.

The Normans laid the town out as a port on the Barrow, on a slope running steeply down to the water, and divided it into burgage plots — long narrow strips running back from the street at right angles, packed tightly side by side. Frontages were deliberately uniform because they were the unit of assessment; depths were not, because they simply ran back as far as the ground allowed.

Eight centuries of subdivision, amalgamation, rebuilding and encroachment have worked on that pattern without erasing it. The consequence for a purchaser is that two adjoining doors of identical width can front registered parcels of entirely different length, and there is no way to tell from the street. The certified plan is the only document that resolves it, and on this plot pattern it earns its cost more clearly than almost anywhere.

Rear ground on those plots — yards, stores, gardens and the lanes and steps serving them — has been enclosed, exchanged and built over informally throughout, so the plan draws what was formally dealt with rather than what has been used.

The steep slope means the same horizontal-projection convention applies as in any hill town, with sloping rear ground under-represented relative to the surface.

The quays are a working port, and port holdings bound the waterfront with registered title on the tidal Barrow stopping at the high water mark.

General boundaries apply throughout, so certification proves the copy authoritatively and the drawn line remains approximate.

For anyone ordering here, the certified plan repays its cost faster than almost anywhere else in the country, because on a burgage pattern the single fact it establishes — how far back the parcel runs — is the fact nothing else will tell you.

A Certified Map proves the registered extent of a New Ross property as the register recorded it on the date of issue. It does not fix the exact boundary line, disclose unregistered interests, set out the register entry itself, explain the terms of a burden it shows graphically, or say anything about planning permission, ground condition or what may be built. Rights acquired by long use over rear ground, the exact line between tightly packed plots and port interests on the waterfront all require enquiry beyond the certified plan.

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The Certified Map is prepared as a certified hard copy under seal and posted to the address you give us. Because the certificate is applied to the document itself, it cannot be supplied as an emailed download in the way an ordinary map can.

Where the New Ross property cannot be identified from the details supplied, or the land proves to be unregistered so that no title plan exists to certify, we contact you before anything is prepared.