Wexford mourners unable to visit loved ones’ graves as flooding turns cemetery into ‘complete bog’

By Simon Bourke, Wexford People

Mourners visiting one of Co Wexford’s biggest cemeteries are unable to visit the graves of loved ones due to persistent flooding at the grounds.

With parts of Crosstown Cemetery reduced to a “complete bog”, Councillor Leonard Kelly asked district engineer Lar Lett whether any short-term measures could be implemented to allow visitors to access the burial sites of family members.

Speaking at the January meeting of the Wexford Borough, Cllr Kelly said Crosstown was “somewhere that people go to on a very frequent basis, it’s a place of calm, but some of it has become a complete bog due to the rain”.

"Could we address this in the short-term and if it needs a bigger project could we look into that?”

While Mr Lett said his team were in the process of carrying out works at Crosstown before the end of the month they have since been stymied by further heavy rainfall.

With Storm Chandra still making it’s way through the county, Cllr Kelly confirmed after the meeting that the works had been put on hold.

“The council is very anxious to get some remediation works done but at the moment the engineers can’t get in to do them because the weather has been so bad there. The staff had hoped to get it done this week but were unable to do so.”