Regulations
Regulations Relating to erection of Headstones
- No inscription, rail, fence, chain surround, nor memorials other than standard headstones, nor planting of any description or kind whatever, shall be erected or made in any place of burial in the cemetery.
- Headstones shall have been approved by Council to which a special written statement and drawing of what is proposed to be so erected. with a copy of the proposed inscription, shall be previously submitted.
- The area of the inscribed face of any headstone is the area of the front face which is visible above the finished ground level and shall be not greater in area that 0.75 of a square metre (8 square feet) for a single grave plot and not greater than 0.90 of a square metre (10 square feet) for a double grave plot.
The overall width of any headstone shall not be greater than 1.10 metres (3ft 8ins) for a single grave plot and 2.30 metres (7ft 8ins) for a double grave plot, the maximum height from finished ground level shall not be greater than 1.50 metres (5ft) and the overall thickness shall not be greater than 300 millimetres (1ft) - Foundations for headstones shall not be greater than 1.10 metres (3ft 8ins) for a single grave plot and 2.30 metres (7ft 8ins) for a double grave plot and shall not be more than 400 millimetres (16ins) wide and of thickness or depth of concrete of at least 150 millimetres (6ins).
Foundations shall be laid using 1:2:4 concrete and shall be founded at such depth from the surface of any place of burial and in such manner as may be approved by the caretaker of the cemetery. No headstone shall be built or fitted in any way on a wall of the cemetery. - In erection of all headstones the caretaker shall have the authority to prevent encroachment on the neighbouring plots. In event of such encroachment taking place, the Council reserves the right of removing the said headstone, at the expense of the person so offending.
- The Council reserves the right to remove, at the proprietor's expense, any headstone which contravene that regulations contained in paragraphs 3 and 4, or which shall have been placed or erected in the cemetery without the Councils authority.
- All rubbish or refuse remaining after the erection of a headstone must be immediately removed from the site, under the directions of the caretaker, at the expense of the proprietor or of the person executing the work.
- The proprietor shall be responsible only for maintaining his headstone, but should he default in hi s duty, this shall then be done by the Caretaker and an appropriate fee charged to the proprietor. This fee must be paid forthwith, but in any event, no burial in that plot shall be permitted until such fee shall be paid. All other maintenance will be undertaken by the Council.
- No headstone inscription shall, on any account, be altered or erased without special sanction of the Council.
- No operations of any kind shall be permitted within the Cemetery ground or the approaches thereto, unless same is specially sanctioned by the Council.
- All workmen and others employed in the Cemetery shall be subject to and under the control of the Caretaker, who may remove them from the Cemetery when he has reasonable cause for so doing, in which case he is required to report same to the Council. He shall also regulate the hours to be observed for the admission and departure of all persons employed in the Cemetery.
- NOTE: In Fintona and Dublin Road (Omagh) Cemeteries, surrounds etc. may be erected with the prior approval of the Council.
