‘We don’t want to get bogged down in dispute with neighbours over boundaries on our family turf plot’
‘As far as I know, the plots have been set out the same way for years, and none of my relatives remembers any changes ever being made’
'The Land Registry makes it very clear that its maps identify properties and not boundaries... You will have to be very assertive about this with your neighbours.’ Photo: Gerry Mooney
Query: Dear Mary Frances, my aunt’s family bought a bog plot in the mid-1980s and cut turf there every year. After she passed on, it wasn’t used for a time, but I inherited it a few years back and, with fuel prices rising, I’ve been cutting turf for the stove for the past five summers.
This year, the owners of a neighbouring plot started cutting again too. Unfortunately, it’s led to a dispute. They now claim that part of the bank I’m cutting is actually theirs, based on Land Registry maps.
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