Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878

Boards may sell exclusive rights of burial, and rights to erect monuments, &c.

178. Any burial board, under such restrictions and conditions as they think proper, may sell the exclusive right of burial, either in perpetuity or for a limited period, in such parts of any burial ground provided by such board as may be appropriated to that purpose, and also the right of constructing any chapel vault or place of burial, with the exclusive right of burial therein, in perpetuity or for a limited period, and also the right of erecting and placing any monument gravestone tablet or monumental inscription in such burial ground, subject to the provisions herein-before contained: Provided always, that such exclusive rights shall not extend in all to a space of one half of such burial ground.