The Property Registration Authority (PRA) has completed its Digital Mapping project. In August 2010 the final county to be digitized, Galway, went live.
This brings to a conclusion a ten year programme of converting the national land register into digital format. There is now a fully electronic national register of property ownership and related information, held on one of the largest databases in Ireland.
What the database provides
At this point some 93% of the total land mass of the State, which represents almost 88% of the legal titles, are now registered in the Land Registry. This percentage equates to some 2 million individual legal titles representing 2.8 million registered land parcels, including houses, apartments, industrial, commercial, infrastructural and farming properties.
All 26 counties are now in fully digitised format – registered property is represented by a seedpoint on the digital map which allows the folio number for each property to be easily identified.
What is now available in Ireland is on a par with the “best in class” internationally and the enhanced value of this database offers possibilities beyond its traditional use.
As a result of this programme of investment the result is a feature-rich database which is already a powerful enabler in facilitating the PRA to assist other organisations in the delivery of Government policy in a value for money manner.
The digital map also enables the PRA to provide statistical information on the number of sales or other transactions in a given area and the number of mortgages registered against the properties. These statistics can be represented in both standard numerical format and in graphical format using state-of-the-art mapping technology.
The database currently supports over 3 million property-related transactions each year and, since its inception, has delivered over 15 million services to customers.
Taken from www.prai.ie