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200 year old sunken lane

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  • 19-01-2010 3:21am
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    Lazairus
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    we have an old cart way that id say dates back before 1840's. It was the original access way to our house.

    today old a fraction remains.

    Does anybody have similar examples

    what were they used for?

    Do i still have the right of way?

    thanks
    ciaran
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    http://iskeraulin.wordpress.com/old-cartway/


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    Red_Marauder
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    There are a number of these at home on my Dads farm where I grew up. They are simply entrances to dwellings as far as I know.

    Many have been removed for modern pasture management but remember that your average farm today would have been many individual smallholdings back a few hundred years ago.

    As for right of way, I'm not sure. You might have to check up with the Land Registry who hold information like this. There may be a Deed of Grant document for access by the occupier of the servient property (your house), or there might be a right of way by prescription, which just means you've been using the route so long that you have established a right of way in effect.


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    CDfm
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    You can also look at the local area with the 1911 census. You an also look up griffits valuations of the area.

    Townslands were a very small areas so it can be easier to find than you think.

    I feel a Time Team episode coming on.


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