Laois County Council require contractors in Laois County Council owned burial grounds to register with them.
Independent Cemetery Contractor means a person or business who executes work or seeks to execute work within a cemetery and includes any gravedigger, erector of monuments, funeral director or other contractor or person not employed directly by the Council to execute work in a cemetery.
Section 39 of the Laois County Council Cemetery Byelaws 2022 makes provision for the establishment of a register of Independent Cemetery Contractors. Section 39 of the Cemetery Byelaws also makes provision for the Council to set conditions for admission to the register together with conditions for maintaining an entry on the register.
Only contractors who are listed on the register of Independent Cemetery Contractors are authorised to undertake works in any cemetery managed by or under the control of Laois County Council.
Persons seeking to engage a contractor to undertake work in a Laois County Council cemetery shall select a contractor from the register of Approved Independent Cemetery Contractors – link provided across.
For more information phone the environment section at 057 866 4000 or email cemeteries@laoiscoco.ie