Probate in Ireland from the UK

The British grant carries no authority here — but it anchors the Irish one. The remote process for UK executors, families and solicitors.

No two probate systems sit closer — or diverge more sharply at this exact point: Ireland does not reseal British grants. The estate administered in London, Manchester or Glasgow that includes an Irish bank account, Irish-registered shares, or the family land in Ireland needs a fresh Irish grant, extracted here under Irish rules. For the commonest cross-border corridor of all — UK-resident executors and UK solicitors with Irish assets on the schedule — this page is the map, and the entire Irish limb runs without anyone crossing the Irish Sea.

Most people arrive at these pages while grieving. We run these files with that in mind: plain answers, no pressure, and matters moved forward so you don’t have to carry the process as well as the loss.

The UK Estate’s Irish Limb, Step by Step

  • The sealed copy first: a court-sealed and certified copy of the British grant, will annexed, ordered from the issuing registry — it evidences the will, the death, the domicile and the entrustment, and usually identifies the person entitled to the Irish grant;
  • The Irish asset schedule: institution names, account and folio numbers, date-of-death values in euro — deciding whether a full grant is needed at all (small balances sometimes release on thresholds and indemnities);
  • The Revenue machinery: the SA.2 Statement of Affairs, PPS numbers for the UK-resident applicant and beneficiaries (the commonest bottleneck — started day one), and the mandatory solicitor-as-agent appointment where the non-resident rules apply;
  • Documents sworn where you are: before UK solicitors, notaries or commissioners as the papers require — familiar territory on both sides of the water;
  • Lodged through eProbate, right first time: names identical across every document, because rejected applications lose their queue place entirely;
  • After the grant: accounts closed, shares transferred through the registrars, Irish property sold from the UK, and sterling-side distribution coordinated with the estate’s UK advisers — tax questions routed to the accountants on each side, always.

Why the UK File Suits This Practice

The corridor rewards a firm built for it: a TEP-led practice speaking the same STEP vocabulary as UK private-client solicitors; the litigation half behind the same door for the UK estate that discovers Irish complications — the legal right share touching Irish land the English will never anticipated, the stuck estate, the sibling in Ireland disputing the whole thing; and a working method — email, video, courier — that treats the Irish Sea as a formality. Start with the Irish Grant Checker if you want the two-minute orientation; the full speciality lives at international probate.

Frequently Asked Questions

It doesn’t — and the history makes the surprise understandable: resealing survives between the UK and much of the Commonwealth, but Ireland stands entirely outside it, and no British grant (England & Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland) has direct effect over Irish assets. Where the Irish holdings are substantial — the working threshold is around €20,000, and always for Irish land — a fresh Irish grant is extracted through the Irish Probate Office. The British grant remains the Irish application’s anchor document: order a court-sealed and certified copy from the issuing registry, will annexed, the week you decide to deal with the Irish assets.

UK Estate, Irish Assets?

Send the sealed grant copy (or the will), the death certificate and the Irish asset list - the reply maps entitlement, documents, timeline and costs before any commitment. No travel required, ever.

Call 01 5827148

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