Limerick home buyers 'scared to live near a graveyard as they get the heebie-jeebies' 

Locals have appealed controversial plans to build a new cemetery near Castletroy, saying it would become a magnet for anti-social behaviour such as 'bare-knuckle boxing' and 'sex in public view'

The plans to construct the graveyard on the site of the Monaleen pitch and putt course, just outside Castletroy to the east of Limerick city, would see more than 3,300 burial plots built over three phases. File picture

Limerick locals have appealed controversial plans to build a new cemetery, amid concerns it could devalue their homes as people “are scared to live near a graveyard as they get the heebie-jeebies".

Furthermore, fears have also been raised the site would become a magnet for anti-social behaviour such as drug taking, “bare-knuckle boxing” and “sex in public view”.