{"id":469135,"date":"2026-05-05T07:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:06:13","slug":"long-running-family-dispute-over-galway-land-settled-by-rental-records-and-squatters-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/469135\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-running family dispute over Galway land settled by rental records and squatter\u2019s rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'Under the Statute of Limitations 1957, a claimant must establish 12 years of continuous possession to bar the rights of the paper title owner'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f83ff0b2-402a-4f2b-9974-a6a8a8f7a00f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;Under the Statute of Limitations 1957, a claimant must establish 12 years of continuous possession to bar the rights of the paper title owner&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Rental records dating back to 1995 proved key in a long-running family land dispute in Galway that hinged on squatter\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Western Circuit Court ruled that brothers Fergal, Pat, and Aonghus Hassett \u2013 rather than their cousin \u2013 are the rightful owners of 34ac of land known locally as Simon\u2019s Place in Tiernascragh, Ballycrissane. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Under the Statute of Limitations 1957, a claimant must establish 12 years of continuous possession to bar the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,147476,185251,7,8],"class_list":["post-469135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-shp","tag-signature-business-economy","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116520707389144128","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}