Inishbofin Heritage Museum & Gift Shop
Before you die, you might expect that someone will occasionally look after your grave. The odd plant or flower and occasional cleaning of your headstone doesn’t seem a lot to ask for. It amounts to something back from the community where you lived for most of your life. It seems a small island community in the West of Ireland has more respect for their dead than West Dunbartonshire Council has here, where we let the grass grow uncut, leave weeds to flourish on graves and vandalised headstones to be ignored. After all, you pay your council tax and decency and respect are not a lot to ask for. An example of how we should be treated is being given by children on a small island which has long connections with Dumbarton. It’s about having respect for your friends and neighbours. A grand total of €485.55 was raised for the Inishbofin Graveyard Maintenence Fund at yesterday’s Bake Sale by a GREAT bunch of kids. The Inishbofin community, which has long-standing connections with Dumbarton, has thanked the youngsters for their kindness, and everyone who supported this initiative.
Island children gathering money to help maintain the graveyard where their forebears have been laid to rest.