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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

MOTION NO. 11

MOTION: Councillor E. Murphy

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the maintenance of Bohernabreena Cemetery including detail on grass cutting, upgrading and maintenance works that have been conducted at the cemetery.

REPORT:

The Public Realm Section has staff assigned on a permanent basis to the maintenance of Bohernabreena graveyard.  Those staff clean and litter pick the graveyard on a daily basis.  During the grass cutting season the grass is cut weekly using a variety of equipment including ride on lawn mower, pedestrian mower and strimmer.  Roads and footpaths are swept as needed to deal with any deposits of soil arising from the digging of graves.  Weed control measures were required early in the year to deal with the spread of a weed known as Marestail and this was brought under control early in the year. The waste bunkers which are used by gravediggers and visitors to the graveyard are cleaned out as required and waste disposed of at an appropriate facility.  Maintenance and improvements were carried out during the year to the public toilets and these are cleaned and serviced on an ongoing basis.  A new section was opened in the graveyard during the year consisting of 170 additional grave plots, the remainder of this section consisting of another 600 plots will be developed in 2023.  The provision of additional angel plots will be required in 2023 and these works will also be carried out in a timely manner.