Tipperary County Council officials have confirmed that there are no plans at present to hire any additional staff to supervise the operation of Cemeteries in the Tipperary Cahir Cashel Municipal District.
District Administrator Anselm McGowan says the existing supervisor in St Michael’s Tipperary town will now split the week working between St Michael’s and St Cormacs in Cashel. Mr McGowan was answering a query at yesterday’s Municipal District Meeting from Cllr Anne Marie Ryan who asked if an additional post was being created or if the level of service in St Michael’s was being downgraded?
Mr McGowan says the staff member will split his time evenly between the two sites. He also informed councillors that St Michael’s is in a good condition as regards records and management of burial plots. As regards access for cars to St Michael’s the meeting heard that this requires an “engineering solution” and this is being developed. This is understood to include an expansion of the roadways in the Cemetery to allow cars to drive on a one way system and avoid any contact with headstones if two cars try to pass on the narrow roadway.
Cllr John Crosse is confident that there is adequate parking for funerals at St Michaels following the recent upgrades and installation of 33 marked parking spaces including 3 disabled parking bays, parking for bicycles, a new footpath and tree and hedgerow planting at St Michaels. The Councillor says he recently attended St Michael’s on the occasion of two funerals and says parking was not problematic.
