For Irish funeral directors
A columbarium wall at your funeral home that pays for itself.
Sell half the niches and the wall has paid for itself. Every niche after that is profit for your business.
When the cremation is over, families turn to you holding the urn. Too often the only answer is “keep it at home for now”.
You could give them a better one, at your own premises.
A columbarium wall is a permanent, visitable place for cremated remains, with a personalised granite panel on every niche. More families are choosing cremation, and most still have nowhere to go.
How a wall pays for itself
A standard 36-niche wall costs €23,000. Once the wall is installed, families can buy niches in advance of need. Once 18 are sold, the wall has paid for itself. Each niche sold brings in about €1,278 on average. The other 18 niches take revenue to €46,000 for a full wall, which is €23,000 profit for your business.
Based on a standard 36-niche wall and an average niche price of €1,278. Final cost confirmed after a free site assessment.
Your cremation service can end where your burial service does: at a permanent resting place.
A new revenue stream. Once half the niches are sold, the wall has paid for itself. Every niche after that is profit for your business, about €23,000 a wall.
Your first wall funds the next. A full wall brings in about €46,000 against its €23,000 cost, so its profit covers the cost of a second wall.
Families keep coming back. They visit, remember, and reserve niches for themselves at your premises, not somebody else's.
A natural way into pre-planning. Couples reserve double niches years ahead. It opens the conversation without you having to.
One wall became three.
Colm Kieran of Kieran Bros Funeral Directors started the Kingscourt columbarium because families kept asking where to place ashes. So many niches sold that two more walls followed. Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan, has since built its own, with the same result.
- The needFamilies asking a funeral director where ashes should go
- Wall one36 niches installed
- Paid forBuild cost covered once half were sold
- Walls two and threeAdded as demand kept coming
- CastleblayneyA second installation, the same result
- Capacity
- 36 niches, 6 across by 6 high
- Panel
- Approx. 370 × 370mm polished granite
- Footprint
- Designed to the space you have
Started by a funeral director, built by local specialists
Colm KieranKieran Bros Funeral Directors. Proposed the first wall.
John TullyTully Memorials. Stonework, granite, engraving and installation.
Gerard McKennaMcKenna Precision Engineering. Design, engineering and fabrication.
What you'll be offering families
Every panel can carry a name, dates, an inscription, a photograph, and a religious or personal symbol.
A wall at your funeral home
Your own columbarium on your own grounds, and your own revenue. We assess the site, design a wall to suit it and install it. Then you sell niches to families in advance of need.
Book a callNo premises, or no room?
If you think a wall would work well in your local parish, introduce us to the priest or committee. We recognise and reward every partnership that leads to a wall being built.
See the page we send parishesEither way, we handle the build.
- CallAbout your premises and your area
- Site visitFree assessment of space and capacity
- DesignA wall to suit the site and surroundings
- BuildManufactured and installed on site
- Sell nichesHalf sold and the wall has paid for itself
- ExpandAnother wall when this one fills
What funeral directors ask first
A standard 36-niche wall costs €23,000. Once it's installed, families can buy niches in advance, long before they're needed. Once 18 are sold, the wall has paid for itself. The other 18 are profit for your business: €46,000 revenue from a full wall, €23,000 of it profit.
Yes. A full wall brings in about €46,000 against its €23,000 cost, so the profit from your first wall covers the cost of the next one.
A standard wall holds 36 niches, 6 across by 6 high. Sizes aren't fixed. We assess your site free of charge and design the wall to suit the space you have.
Yes. Niches can be reserved and paid for well before they're needed, including double niches for couples. That's what funds the wall, and it's a natural opening for a pre-planning conversation.
More walls can be added. Kingscourt started with one wall and now has three. We design with expansion in mind wherever the site allows.
Let's talk about a wall for your area.
Leave your details and we'll ring you back to talk through your premises, the numbers, or an introduction to your parish. No obligation.
- Phone
- 042 603 9990