Natural Burial Ground
In 2010, our sister company The Green Graveyard Company opened Ireland's only Natural Burial Ground on the Carlow / Wexford border. Please visit the natural burial page for more information.
What is a Natural Burial Ground/ Green Graveyard?
In its most simplistic form, a NBG is a graveyard where the land has a second use as a living, developing and natural nature reserve/woodland. Gone are the marble headstones and concrete surrounds that are commonplace in other Irish burial grounds, replaced instead by a small simple grave marker and the planting of a native Irish tree or sowing of wildflower seed.
Visitors will be able to walk along the pathways surrounded by nature, spotting wildlife in their newly created habitats. These natural burial grounds will be sacred and natural places. People of all faiths and those without any religion will find a beautiful resting place.
In choosing a natural or green burial you will be creating, conserving and sustaining native Irish woodland/wildflower meadow.
It is a gift that will keep on giving to future generations.
Why Natural Burial?
There is a lot of misinformation about the “greenest” and most “environmentally beneficial choices” we could take in death.
Below is a quick table of some of the issues you may wish to consider when choosing between cremation, traditional burial or natural burial.
