The ownership of the foreshore and bed of tidal waters is presumptively vested in the State.\u00a0 See the section on the Foreshore Act, 1933.\u00a0 The State may grant leases and licenses of foreshore. Rights may exist in favour of third-parties predating the foreshore legislation.<\/p>\n
The public may have rights over the foreshore of a tidal river when \u00a0it is not covered by tide.\u00a0 They may have navigation rights in the sea where it is so covered.<\/p>\n
An island which arises in tidal water presumptively belongs to the State.\u00a0 This may be rebutted if the area on which the island is formed is the subject of a grant or is in the possession of a third party.\u00a0 An island arising in a non-tidal river belongs to the riparian owner.\u00a0 It follows ownership of the soil.<\/p>\n
The soil of lakes and pools including those which are large enough to be a navigable does not necessarily vest in the State.\u00a0 Where it is entirely surrounded by the land of one owner, it is presumed to belong to that owner.\u00a0 Where it belongs to more than one owner, the law is not set.<\/p>\n\n
\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Adjoining Rivers It is presumed, in the absence of an indication to the contrary, that the bed of non-tidal river vests equally in the owners of the adjoining riparian lands.\u00a0 This is equivalent to a presumption of ownership of the subsoil of the highway street or road on the part of adjoining property owners. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32722,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12021\/revisions\/32722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}