COUNTY COUNCIL TO AXE OLD TRADITIONS ON BURIALS

Date Published: 04-Apr-2012

A number of old traditions are to be axed in Galway County Council's new policy on burials.The Council has introduced new regulations which will see changes to new graves and headstones.Traditionally graves and headstones faced the rising sun but now the Council is insisting that headstones must be back to back to save space.This will be in new cemeteries and extensions to cemeteries.