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Clarke's Funeral Home - Bailieborough
Lower Main Street, Bailieborough, Co. Cavan

The Clarke family have been providing funeral services since 1928. We pride ourselves on a discreet professional service.
We provide a funeral Service for all religious denominations in East Cavan and into part of county Meath.
Our purpose-built funeral home in Bailieborough, gives bereaved families the choice of using the funeral home or home wakes or the combination of both.
Services Provided
- Burials and Cremation
- Organising Religious & Civil Funerals
- Placement of death notices in newspapers, radio, internet
- Fresh & Silk Wreaths & Floral Tributes
- Grave opening & closing
- Arranging choir or soloist etc
- Arranging qualified experienced embalmers
- Coffin showroom
- Pre paid Funerals Plans
- Repatriation
- Exhumation
- Payment of all third party costs i.e. gravediggers, choir, church sacristan, alter servers, priest / minister / celebrant etc.
- We can provide the family with black ties, candles, candle sticks & crucifix, holy water, condolence books & other items, as required.
History
Clarke’s Funeral Directors was set up in 1928 by Michael Clarke, who started his business as a hardware shop and then gradually expanded into groceries and feed stuffs. Alongside his undertaking service, he also ran a public house, which continued to operate until 1999.
When Clarke’s Funeral Directors started trading, there were eight other undertakers in Bailieborough. Michael was the first to have a motor hearse in the local area and would regularly hire out this hearse to different undertakers locally, on an as needed basis. This service continued into the late eighties, as many funeral directors did not own their own hearse.
Michael Clarke passed away in 1968 and a young Francis Clarke took over the running of the business to the present day. He is assisted today by his son, Aidan, who has been working in the business since 2002. Both Francis and Aidan still run the hardware shop and are members of the Albany home décor specialists group. Clarke’s are an accredited member of the Irish Association of Funeral Directors and pleased to serve the people of the area, carrying on a family tradition of undertaking in a professional and respectful way.
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