A chara, – My wife and I visited the Angels’ Plot at Glasnevin Cemetery last Thursday. Our first-born baby was buried there 40 years ago this month. We went to pray, but also to see how the creation of the New Remembrance Garden on the site of the babies’ graves from the late 1960s onwards was progressing. A light earth-spreading machine was working on the site.
Last September Glasnevin Trust placed a public notice in newspapers advising parents “work will be expertly and sensitively undertaken without disturbance to the existing graves”. I believe that this is being adhered to despite the delay in starting the work due to the ravages of the bad winter. The trust also requested families “to remove their memorials and personal effects from the Angels’ Plot”. It added, “If it is not possible to do this at this time the cemetery will put these effects into safe keeping and families will be able to collect their mementos. Any effects uncollected after a certain date will be discreetly disposed of on the cemetery’s grounds”.
Some parents (ourselves included) did remove their memorials, but many did not. I was therefore disappointed to see on last Thursday’s visit, the said mementos dumped at the side of the Angels’ Plot. – Is mise,
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