Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Board may lay out and embellish burial ground.

183. It shall be lawful for any burial board to enclose, lay out, and embellish any burial ground, subject to the jurisdiction of such board, in such manner as may be fitting or proper: Provided always, that in all cases in which a burial board shall provide a new burial ground under this Act, it shall be lawful for such burial board, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, to divide such new burial ground or some part thereof into certain parts and proportions, to be allotted in such manner as to the Local Government Board shall seem fit, for the burial of the members of any particular religious denomination; and each such allotment shall, as the case may require, be consecrated according to the rites and by the proper ministers of the respective religious denominations for which such allotment is so set apart.