Ballinasloe gets go ahead for Western seaboard's first crematorium
Galway bay fm newsroom - A Loughrea businessman has been granted planning permission to build the western seaboard's first crematorium and it will be in Ballinasloe.
Ballinasloe Town Council has granted permission to Kevin Tuohy of BKT construction, Coni-care, Clostoken for a single-storey crematorium on a green field site at Garbally desmesne close to the N6 on the Galway side of the town.
At present people along the western seaboard have to use crematoriums in Cork or Dublin, so the facility is seen as much needed.
Businessman Tommy Varden's attempts to get permission to build a crematorium in Tuam have been unsuccessful.
The Ballinasloe facility which has been given the go ahead comprises a reflection room, ceremony room, cremator and other anxillary rooms and services as well as a memorial garden and is subject to 14 conditions.