Council acquires land for new Trim burial grounds

Plans for the new burial ground for the Trim area are progressing following the purchase of a 13.5 acres site at Loganstown by the Meath County Council.

The first phase will see 2,400 single plots, and a burial garden including columbarium wall for interment of ashes, as well as a caretakers building and public toilets on seven acres of the site. A car park for 100 cars including accessible spaces will be provided. The remainder of the site will remain in agricultural use until required.

An update was given to local councillors at their meeting last week who were told that hydrological assessments carried out last year found that it was suitable for use a cemetery.

It is located 550m from the junction with the Newtown Road in the townland of Loganstown and the council is proposing to install a two-metre wide footpath and public lighting along the Rathnally Road to the cemetery. The road will also need to be widened. Footpaths will also be installed coming from Newtown to the cemetery.

A 5.5m entrance road into the cemetery will have car parking and the car parking to one side with burial plots on the other side of the roadway.

Councillors were told a water supply would be available for watering purposes but that it wasn't intended to provide bins.

The cemetery will be managed by Meath County Council similar to St Finian's Cemetery in Navan and the Derrockstown Burial Ground in Dunshaughlin.

The plans will go on public display later this summer.

It is hoped that once the statutory processes are completed, it will go out to tender early next year and that work can start next summer. The site will not need much work and construction should take approximatey six to nine months to complete.

Pressure to find a site for a new cemetery to serve Trim and surrounding area has been mounting as Trim Parish's St Loman's Cemetery is almost at full capacity. Only single graves are available in St Loman's at present.