Board refuses plans for first private cemetery

An Bord Pleanála has refused permission to create the first private cemetery in Cork, saying it could endanger the public water supply and create a traffic hazard.

Developer Daithí MacCarthaigh took the case to the planning appeals board last September after Cork County Council refused him permission to develop land he owns in Glanmire into a private cemetery.

Mr MacCarthaigh had received widespread support for the development from the clergy and local residents who were concerned that grave spaces were running out so fast in the Glanmire area that people would soon have no choice but to be buried outside the parish.