Brady calls on Council to install water supply at Kilmurry Cemetery
Wicklow Sinn Féin TD John Brady has called on Wicklow County Council to install a water supply at Kilmurry Graveyard in Newtownmountkennedy. Describing the current situation as unnecessarily placing difficulties in front of the families and friends as they tend to the graves of their loved ones, he spoke of the difficulties that elderly relatives faced as they were forced to carry water with them to the cemetery to water plants and maintain the upkeep of loved one’s graves. He said that a lot of the pipe work is in place in the cemetery, all that is required is for the council to do is to approve a connection, get the water turned on, and the issue can be resolved.
Brady said:
“I believe that Wicklow County Council should and could agree to provide a water supply to the graveyard at Kilmurry cemetery in Newtownmountkennedy.
The local community has been asking that a water supply be provided for a long number of years at this stage, and it really is not too much to ask for.
Anybody that visits Kilmurry cemetery can clearly see how well maintained that the graves are. It is obvious that visitors to the cemetery care deeply about the upkeep of the graves.
But the absence of a water supply leaves it that much more difficult to tend to the graves of loved ones. It is particularly challenging for older people who are forced to carry water with them to wash the graves, water flowers and plants.
With a lot of the necessary water lines in place, all that is required for the council to do is to give approval for the connection and the matter can be easily resolved.
As things stand, the current situation is not fair, and it is unnecessary. I am again calling on Wicklow County Council to install a water supply to Kilmurry cemetery at the earliest opportunity.” ENDs
