Council fails to secure land amid grave plot shortage

The escalating cost of agricultural land is making it difficult to acquire land for burial ground in an area already short of publicly- owned grave plots.

Killarney Town Council has been unsuccessfully looking for land for a graveyard for more than 20 years and failed again in its most recent bid.

The council put in a €240,000 offer for a 12-acre lot on a farm at Knockeenduve, on the northern outskirts of the town, but the lot eventually went for €385,000 to another bidder — far exceeding the guide price.