Conveyancing Solicitors in Kilkenny
Buying, selling and transferring property across Kilkenny and the south-east — homes, sites, farmland and family transfers. From an office at 2 Rose Inn Street in the city centre, in a firm established in 1981.
45+
Years, Established 1981
Kilkenny
2 Rose Inn Street
Buying, Selling
Transfers & Remortgages
Fees Agreed
in Writing at the Outset
You Are Not Committed Until Contracts Are Exchanged
It is the single most misunderstood thing about buying a house in Ireland. A booking deposit paid to an estate agent is generally refundable and commits nobody. Until contracts are signed by both sides and exchanged, a seller can accept a higher offer and a buyer can reduce theirs or walk away. That period is where the anxiety lives — and the only real way to shorten it is preparation, not pressure.
When You Are Actually Safe →Where the Questions Arise
Twelve guides written properly rather than as brochure pages — because most people do this two or three times in a life, and the stress comes almost entirely from not knowing what happens next.
Buying a Home
The whole process in order, from booking deposit to keys - and the points where buyers are genuinely exposed.
Selling a Home
What your solicitor needs from you, when, and why the file you assemble now decides how fast it closes.
Contracts, Deposits & Commitment
Nothing binds until contracts are signed and exchanged. What that means for booking deposits and gazumping.
Title, Folios & Tailte Éireann
Registered and unregistered title, folios and maps, and why some transactions take longer than others.
Mortgages & Undertakings
Your solicitor usually acts for your lender too, and gives a personal undertaking. That shapes everything.
Planning Compliance
The certificate that holds up more Irish closings than anything else - extensions, conversions, attic rooms.
New Builds & Management Companies
Builder’s contracts, stage payments, snagging, and the management company you are joining.
Sites, Farmland & Rural Property
Maps, access, wayleaves, septic tanks, wells and folios - the Kilkenny transactions that need real care.
Family Transfers & Gifts
Transferring a house or land within a family, rights of residence, and the advice each side needs separately.
Remortgaging & Transfers of Equity
Switching lender, adding or removing a name from the deeds, and what each actually involves.
What Delays a Closing
The same eight things, over and over. Most are findable at the start rather than discovered in week six.
Conveyancing in Kilkenny
How the process runs locally, the searches that matter here, and what to expect at each stage.
A Great Many Kilkenny Sales Come Out of an Estate
A house being sold by executors. Land being transferred to the child who farms it. A site being carved out for a son or daughter. A property that has been in the family for three generations on unregistered title. Those transactions are conveyancing and succession at the same time, and handling them as two separate jobs is how they stall. Richard O’Shea is a TEP of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the firm runs a substantial probate practice alongside this work, so the estate side and the property side are dealt with together rather than passed between advisers.
Family transfers and gifts of property →The Process, in Order
1. Sale agreed through the auctioneer, and a booking deposit paid — refundable, and binding on nobody. 2. Contracts issue from the seller’s solicitor with the title documents. 3. Investigation of title, requisitions raised, searches carried out, planning compliance checked. This is the stage where problems surface, and where a well-prepared seller pulls ahead. 4. Mortgage loan offer accepted, conditions satisfied, and your solicitor gives the lender its undertaking. 5. Contracts signed and exchanged, with the balance deposit paid — this is the point you are committed, and the point the anxiety ends. 6. Closing, when funds transfer, keys are handed over and you take possession. 7. Afterwards, stamping and registration with Tailte Éireann, which happens quietly in the background and matters more than people realise.
Across Kilkenny and the South-East
Richard O’Shea — Solicitor & TEP
Solicitor at Mary Molloy Solicitors, established 1981, with an office at 2 Rose Inn Street in Kilkenny city centre and a second office in Dublin. The firm handles residential and rural conveyancing across Kilkenny and the south-east — buying, selling, sites and farmland, family transfers, remortgages and transfers of equity. Richard is a TEP of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, which matters more in conveyancing than people expect: a great many property transactions in Kilkenny arise out of an estate, a family transfer or a succession plan, and those need both sides handled together. Nothing here is tax advice — stamp duty and any gift or inheritance tax questions belong with your accountant and Revenue. 01 5827148 · richardoshea@marymolloysolicitors.com · LinkedIn