Major town running out of graveyard spaces

Time is running out for efforts to acquire land for a burial ground in Killarney.

As nearly all available plots in the town’s three public cemeteries have been taken, Killarney Town Council — which has been unsuccessfully seeking additional burial land for over a decade — feels the local authority could be abolished before progress is made. “We have awindow of 18 months,” said Labour councillor and former mayor Sean Counihan, referring to the 2014 abolition date for town councils.

All of which adds urgency to the council’s efforts to obtain land in Killarney National Park.