Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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266. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a burial site (details supplied) of historical importance can be accessed by members of the public for historical review in view of the fact that it is apparently landlocked and is situated on private land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47439/18]

Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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My Department has policy and legislative responsibility for local authority burial grounds.

Local authorities are responsible for the management, regulation and control of local authority burial grounds in their functional areas.

Following enquiries by my Department, the relevant local authority has indicated that the burial site referenced in the Deputy's question is not registered to the local authority and the surrounding field is in private ownership, with no right-of-way registered on the land registry map. Access to the burial site is therefore, a matter for the relevant landowner(s).

The local authority indicated that the graveyard is not protected under the National Monuments Acts and there are no burial records held with the relevant local authority library service for this site.