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Buying house near cemetery?

  • 29-11-2021 3:54am
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 34


    Hi, did anyone bought house near cemetery?

    I have a seen a property named Kilbelin abbey which is few blocks away from st conleths cemetery at newbridge. The house front or backyard doesn't face directly next to the cemetery. But there is way next to cemetery which takes us to property.

    There are few developments near this cemetery like belin woods and Red abbey.

    Would you recommend buying a house and how will this impact when I resale the house?


    Any feedback is much appreciated.

    Post edited by Red Albey on


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    Didn't you start this thread earlier?



  • Registered Users Posts: 34 Red Albey


    Someone recommended to post here in this topic.



  • Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭shillyshilly


    I heard people are dying to buy around there



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Its the living you need to worry about. The dead won't cause any trouble



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Deregos.


    "I have a seen a property named Kilbelin abbey which is few blocks away from st conleths cemetery at newbridge."

    I know that place . . it's right in the dead centre.

    Pictures of your own bad parking WITH CHAT



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Advantages - no extra development on the cemetery itself.

    Disadvantages - none.



    I don't understand why anyone would have any issues living near a cemetery. There are hundreds, if not thousands in the country.


    Ridiculous question imo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Comer1


    "Ridiculous question imo."

    Clearly, you've never seen Poltergeist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,113 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    I know someone who built looking over a cemetery, house is front facing the ocean but the cemetery can be clearly seen from side/back of the house . Didn't bother him .



  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 32,285 Mod ✭✭✭✭The_Conductor


    I don't see any potential downsides. Some people may be squeamish about living near a cemetery- but its not normally an issue. The only potential issue is periodically (monthly mind masses, funerals etc) you may have abnormal traffic and parking issues- but its only for an hour or two here and there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Advantages - no extra development on the cemetery itself.

    I wouldn't say that's always the case. If you have an old cemetery that hasn't been used in a century, it might be rezoned for development if you're unlucky.

    Not the case here though. The cemetery even has a new wing for fresh graves. Safe to say it's going nowhere in any of our grandchildrens' lifetimes.

    Benefit of a graveyard is that you've got a nice, quiet, self-contained place to go for a walk or a run that's not far from home. Zig-zag up and down the rows and you'll cover a lot of ground.



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  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,355 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    You say that the house isn't really near the cemetery, if I'm reading this correctly. I'm not sure what exactly you are asking. What are your concerns about it? Genuine question.

    Personally, it wouldn't bother me, in the slightest, to live near a cemetery. As pp said, there might be occasional, slightly busier traffic in the area, for funerals, maybe, but that's all.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,092 ✭✭✭DubCount


    Quiet neighbours - what's the problem?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,205 ✭✭✭cruizer101


    The cemetery might be rezoned for development???

    As bad as the housing crisis gets they are not going to rezone a cemetery to allow someone to build on it.

    Only potential disadvantage might be funeral traffic and parking, if cemetery has decent carpark isn't much of an issue.



  • Registered Users Posts: 547 ✭✭✭shillyshilly




  • Registered Users Posts: 34 Red Albey


    The estate name is Kilbelin abbey, newbridge. There are new houses yet to build and they are behind the cemetery.

    I've read and seen videos about buying a property near cemetery is not recommended as it doesn't provide market value. Is that true in Ireland?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    Yeah you're all brave now behind your keyboards, but when the zombie apocalypse starts you'll be laughing out of the other side of your faces.

    And if you think it will never happen all i'll say is it has started.

    Pandemic, zombie minks in Holland. Who would have thought any of that would happen a few years ago. hey? who? hey? I thought so.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,003 ✭✭✭handlemaster


    Looking at issues such as the grave yard violence in Tuam today, It would make you want to check out if there were travellers graves there. And before anyone says it how many attacks have we seen over the years in grave yards and where they come from. Longford was always a hot bed for this activity



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,817 ✭✭✭Darc19


    Complete and utter rubbish.

    Google anything whatsoever and you will have doom merchants.



    If you that concerned, buy elsewhere as there are plenty that will buy the house you are looking at .


    Frankly, this is the first time I have heard anyone query being near a cemetery - and I'm no spring chicken.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,669 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    At least you won't have loud neighbours having house parties anyway.



  • Registered Users Posts: 552 ✭✭✭pawdee


    I'd happily live in this house...........

    https://www.themodernhouse.com/past-sales/swains-lane/



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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,450 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    You obviously haven't had to put up with midnight renditions of the Monster Mash.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    We're in a little cul de sac of 20 houses which has a cemetery at the end. It's about 80m (7 house widths) from our house but there's a 3m high tree lined fence separating us from "them" so you wouldn't have a clue without having seen an overhead image. It's super quiet. Never gave it a second thought tbh.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,495 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    Sometimes people go in there at night to bury a stiff...

    Not your ornery onager



  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 7,355 Mod ✭✭✭✭HildaOgdenx


    No. I have never heard of proximity to a graveyard negatively impacting property values.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭Car99


    A friend of mine bought overlooking a cemetery. He heard his toddler numerours times having conversations on the baby monitor when the child was in his room alone. Asked the child who he was talking to and he said the little boy outside . The window in the room looked directly into the graveyard.

    Post edited by Car99 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,512 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Here's a tip. Like the tooth fairy and leprechauns, ghosties don't exist.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,960 ✭✭✭billyhead




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    I wouldn’t do it, could be digging a hole for yourself....

    We have family buried in balgriffin and it can be chaos there at weekends, I’ve seen traffic parked partially blocking access to inisfails Gaa club and one of the houses too...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭Tork


    A cemetery wouldn't bother me at all. I have a loved one who's buried in a cemetery near me and there's a nice vibe to the place - in as much as you can say a cemetery has a nice vibe. There are always people coming and going, either to visit graves or to maintain the place.

    There are two things that'd put me off, and they might not apply to where you're looking. The first is that some cemeteries attract an anti-social element. Do the living go drinking/drugging/burying some stiffs in this cemetery? The other is traffic, though again it all depends on the layout of the area. If you can, visit the area in the evening when the weather's not too **** and see do the hooded tracksuit wearers go there? The other is to take a look at RIP.ie and check when the next burial in this cemetery takes place. Watch out for where the cars get parked and if there's a possibility that you could be impacted by it.

    Post edited by Tork on


  • Posts: 18,749 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I have no idea why anyone would care about a cemetery nearby. Can't see how it impacts the house owners



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You'd only have cause to be concerned if it was a Pet Sematary.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭JDD


    It is an odd one. I was always on the look out for a house on one of the little roads that back on to Deansgrange cemetery. They were, astoundingly enough, always slightly cheaper than the other houses in the area. Presumably they were priced that way because there's a sizeable chunk of the population who have an over active heebyjeeby gland. I could only see pros - a bargain of a house in a nice area, not overlooked and a nice place to go for a walk. Plus my granny was buried in there.

    That being said, you'd probably have to take into account the slight haircut if you were thinking of selling in five years or whatever. But it doesn't mean you'd have to give a big discount, and that haircut was likely already applied when you bought it, so on a net basis there is no loss.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,495 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    You do know that people living beside a cemetery cannot be buried there?















    Because they are not dead yet.

    Not your ornery onager



  • Registered Users Posts: 34 Red Albey




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  • Registered Users Posts: 34 Red Albey


    Actually, the one I'm looking to buy is actually 7-8 houses behind the cemetery. The estate is not built on cemetery. It is just closer proximity to cemetery. The cemetery cannot be seen from my house anyways.

    Hope that clarifies.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    You’d get a good nights sleep and when it’s all over for you you’d only be moving a short distance to your final resting place.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Cemeteries are fascinating and heartrending places.

    And as one grave epitaph says.. "Where I am there you will one day be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    You can make a small fortune renting it out on Scarebnb around Halloween.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,283 ✭✭✭✭rob316


    As my nan used to say "the dead can't hurt ya boy"

    Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Cemeteries are actually fascinating. Local history; family life. I used to..... haunt.... them when I was able to be out and clear neglected graves . They tell so many stories. I would love to live near one. Although at my very advanced age...lol..



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,064 ✭✭✭pauliebdub


    The other thing that would bother me is heavy funeral traffic so it would depend on how big or busy the cemetery is. Other than that it wouldn't bother me - it's going to be quiet and I'd know that it won't be developed on. Are people really squeamish about living near a cemetery??



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Unless there is a funeral it should be reasonably quiet... you could hear someone coffin outside balgriffin it’s that quiet.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,495 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    ^ ISWYDT 😀

    Not your ornery onager



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