A new municipal cemetery comprising 4,000 plots, repositories for ashes, a memorial garden and a memorial service building is set to open in Derry.
Work on the cemetery, which will be sited at Mullenan Road in the south of the city near the Donegal border, will begin early next year. It is anticipated the first interments will take place towards the end of 2025.
Traffic will access the site via a new gated and walled entrance, while a footway link will be made to Balloughry Road, connecting pedestrians and cyclists using ‘The Line’ greenway.
This new cemetery will allow for a minimum of 20 years burial capacity with the potential for further expansion on to adjoining lands.
Derry City Cemetery currently has more than 77,000 people buried with burials in existing plots expected to continue well into the future.
A recent extension will facilitate new grave burials in the interim until the new facility at Mullenan Road is complete.
