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Boundary shed issue.

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  • 10-09-2019 8:41pm
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    JohnFord7
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    I would really appreciate help with this issue.

    Our home is situated on a long, narrow site. The boundary between ourselves and our neighbour is approximately 100 metres.

    Straddling a 15 metre stretch of this boundary is the back of our neighbour's shed, made of galvanise sheeting.

    (When I say 'straddling' - there had once been a wooden post-and-rail fence which has long since rotted away. However, our neighbours say this represented the actual boundary, which it probably did.)

    The shed is in very poor condition and many of the galvanise sheets are collapsing and rusting away with holes in them. This is obviously completely devaluing my property as it looks disgusting.

    Do I have any rights to tidy up the back of the shed (new galvanise sheets, paint etc.)?
    Or do I even have the right to demand my neighbour clean it up? Obviously I don't want to go down that road as I'd be willing to do it myself, but it would be interesting to know.

    Does the back of the shed now constitute the boundary as it is a structure built so close to the previous boundary?

    I know this area is a legal minefield. I also know that it is advisable to keep the peace with our neighbours. I would just like to know what the facts are in this situation.

    I would really appreciate any help with this.

    Thank you in advance.


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    Calahonda52
    Registered Users Posts: 12,194 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    welcome to Boards
    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2009/act/27/enacted/en/print#part8-chap3

    rights and obligation of both parties set out here

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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    JohnFord7
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭JohnFord7


    Thank you for the welcome! And thank you for that link, but I have read it a number of times previously and I'm still not quite sure where I stand.

    Reading that, my understanding of it is that a.) the back of the shed now constitutes the boundary and/or b.) I'm entitled to clean up the back of the shed.

    I may be very wrong though...


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