Councillors seek answers over planned columbarium walls for ashes in Cork graveyards

Councillors seek assurances on timeframe ashes can be stored and what will happen if no relatives seek to repossess the urns

Columbarium walls at Killarney Burial Ground. Picture: Valerie O’Sullivan

Questions have been raised by Cork county councillors about the future policy their local authority will adopt for new Columbaria walls it is planning to introduce in graveyards in the region.

Councillors want ashes disposed of in a “sensitive manner” if the council puts a certain timeframe on the length of time the wall spaces can be used, as happens in other countries.