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Over 40,000 graveyard memorial records are now being released as part of Galway County Digital Mapping of Graveyards Project. The aim of the project is to support communities and diaspora to connect with their past by unlocking valuable graveyard data sources and making them available as open-source data that will be free for all to use.

The inability of people across County Galway to bury loved ones in local graveyards is causing huge concern to Galway County Council and  the situation has now reached crisis point. This week’s local authority meeting heard that one third of the county’s 230 graveyards now require an extension.

Local Cllr John Dolan has welcomed the allocation of €14,000 for the opening of extentsions to both Castledaly and Dunegan graveyards.

Work to expand Castledaly Graveyard is to commence in the coming weeks, councillors learned this week, after they raised concern about the lack of space in both Castledaly and Dunegan graveyards.

When the burial ground bye-laws are finally passed by Mayo County Council, if there is a breach of the bye-laws in regard to the height and type of grave constructed, the monumental sculptor will be held responsible for it, it emerged this week.

The issue of whether Mayo County Council is liable for anyone who is injured while visiting graveyards was clarified at the local Swinford Electoral Area committee meeting which took place this week.

A number of old graveyards in Kilkenny have been reccommended for funding by Kilkenny County Council.

Work which began at St Kieran’s Cemetery last year to restore and construct footpaths is set to recommence this month.