You don’t have to make any arrangements to visit Woodbrook – you can always come and go. You just enter the pedestrian gate at the entrance and walk up. If you are struggling to find the grave just give us a call and we will guide you to it.

+353 74 9152712

If you would like to have a team member meet with you and show you around, please contact us and we will try our best to accommodate you.

The answer to this question is yes - you are still allowed to visit the grave of your loved one whilst a funeral is being conducted ….... but please

• Please supervise pets and children.

• Keep a respectful distance from the family.

• Speak if spoken to (often it is nice for family members to talk to others who have loved ones buried at the grounds).

• Refrain from having a picnic

• If the space being used is close to your space, please wait until the funeral is over before going to visit your grave.

The day of the funeral is a difficult time for families, respecting their space is all we ask.

The simple answer to this is yes, we are probably the most secure burial grounds in Ireland.

The easiest way to explain this is by answering the two main questions asked in this regard below.

Will the land be used in the future for some other development?

No, the grounds will always remain a burial ground.

When applying to operate a graveyard in Ireland you need to secure planning permission from the local county council. You need to secure a change of land use from its previous/current use to cemetery provision. Once you secure the planning permission and actually use the grounds for burial purposes it is highly highly unlikely that the council would grant a change of land use again—not that we will be requesting it. In the past ancient graveyards have been moved to allow for vital infrastructural projects—but these are extreme cases and certainly not in the open countryside.

What happens when the grounds are full, how will the graveyard be funded?

A percentage of all income received is placed in a secure stand-alone fund. The value of this fund increases over time. Once the burial ground has reached capacity this (now significant) fund will pay for the annual upkeep of the grounds. Our Memorial Tree service will also help in this regard.

The council would not have given us planning permission unless we showed them the model we use to develop and secure the burial grounds. It is also worth noting that although we don’t get any government aid to manage the grounds (as a lot of graveyards in Ireland do) the maintenance required for a Natural Burial Ground is significantly less than your traditional (Victorian-type) graveyard.

Disability access – you can drive to the entrance of the graveyard and there is a flat path around the graveyard, but keep in mind that most of the graveyard is similar to a field. There is a toilet on site, however, there are no disability toilets.

Our grounds as a whole are not consecrated – however, individual graves can be. This is done by the blessing of the grave with holy water by the attending priest – and is quite common.

Burial takes place at 3.5 / 4 feet allowing for anaerobic decomposition.

Yes, of course. You can view our guide to bringing ashes from abroad here.

Yes, and people do come from outside of ROI.

Yes of course - it is the funeral director who always takes care of the deceased before they get to us - the best way to think about us is we provide the green space - everything else is similar to an ordinary funeral.

You get the coffin from your chosen funeral director, and they charge it as part of their funeral package. You can view the different types of green coffins that are available on our sister company’s website: www.greencoffins.ie

You can find directions to the burial ground here.

We do accept burial shrouds however, due to health and safety, it must have a timber backing/base, you should organise this with your chosen funeral director.

No, we don’t allow tree pod burial. This is due to the fact that we don’t know where the seeds have come from and bare root trees have a much better success rate of growing.

We often get asked if we have options for ashes at Woodbrook, and the answer is yes!

Firstly, we provide ashes burial plots. Ashes are buried with flowers and/or trees growing above. Typically, one tree oversees a number of ashes burial plots. You can reserve side-by-side plots so that the ashes of loved ones can be buried next to each other.

There are a number of benefits to this:

• Somewhere to visit – ashes burial plots offer a place for you to visit your loved one which you often don’t get when ashes are scattered.

• Environmental benefits – burying ashes in a natural graveyard allows for the final resting space of your loved ones to be used as an aid to nature and wildlife conservation.

If you would prefer scattering, we also offer the option to scatter ashes within our stone circle. The stone circle is located in the heart of our grounds and hosts a beautiful oak tree.

Yes, people of any religion/without religion can be buried at Woodbrook.

Grave markers can be ordered here after a death has taken place.

It is not compulsory to be embalmed. However, people who have been embalmed can still be buried at Woodbrook. There are also eco-friendly embalming fluids available.