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Desmond Maguire Funeral Directors

Crosshill, Glasgow G42 8AP An independent family firm, with a second funeral home (The Mill Funeral Home) in Rutherglen.

Desmond Maguire Funeral Directors is an independent family firm at its Crosshill Funeral Home on Cathcart Road, with a second funeral home (The Mill Funeral Home) in Rutherglen. Its Standardised Price List gives the funeral director’s charge for an Attended Funeral as £2,730, itemised below; it does not offer an unattended burial. Its Unattended Cremation is priced at £1,700: the price list states this single figure already contains the cremation fee, with no separate crematorium charge added on top. For an attended cremation the local cremation fee is £854; for an attended burial the local burial fee typically runs £700 to £1,200. Viewing by appointment and embalming are both free of charge. Other published charges: additional mileage outside the Glasgow area at £1.75 a mile; additional transfers of the person (for example, to their home or a place of worship) at £100 to £190 each; collection and delivery of ashes, free of charge; and a funeral officiant, such as a celebrant or minister, at £180 to £250.

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Prices last verified: September 2026 · Based on the published price list for Desmond Maguire Funeral Directors, dated February 2025

What Desmond Maguire Funeral Directors publishes

The figures below are from Desmond Maguire Funeral Directors’s own published prices. Third-party fees, such as cremation, cemetery and officiant fees, are extra unless a figure explicitly says they are included.

Unattended (Direct) Cremation

A private cremation with no service and no mourners present. Desmond Maguire’s £1,700 price already includes the cremation fee: there is no separate crematorium charge to add.

£1,700

Desmond Maguire’s Unattended Cremation: £1,700 in total. The Standardised Price List states this is the funeral director’s charges plus the cremation fee, combined into one price; unlike the Attended Funeral, no separate cremation fee is added on top.

Includes

  • The funeral director’s fees and the crematorium fee, in one figure
  • Collection and care of the person who has died
  • All necessary legal and administrative arrangements
  • A simple, dignified coffin
  • Cremation without a service; ashes returned to the family

Attended Funeral (Standardised Price List)

The funeral director’s charge for an attended funeral. The cremation or burial fee is separate.

£2,730

Desmond Maguire’s Attended Funeral: funeral director’s charges only, from the Standardised Price List. The cremation fee (£854 locally) or burial fee (typically £700 to £1,200 locally) is added on top.

Includes

  • Legal and administrative arrangements (£1,300)
  • Collecting and transporting the person into their care, normally within 15 miles (£300)
  • Care of the person before the funeral, at their Crosshill Funeral Home (£290)
  • A wood-veneer coffin (£500)
  • Viewing by appointment, if requested, during office hours (free of charge)
  • A hearse to the cemetery or crematorium, normally within 20 miles (£340)

Attended burial

A burial funeral. Desmond Maguire does not offer an unattended burial, and does not publish a fixed price for a traditional attended burial.

By quote

Desmond Maguire’s Standardised Price List marks its unattended burial as not offered, and it does not publish a fixed price for a traditional attended burial. Its Attended Funeral is £2,730 in funeral director’s charges; a burial also requires the local burial fee (typically £700 to £1,200 for local residents) and, where a new grave is needed, the cost of the plot.

Contact

Address
675 Cathcart Road, Crosshill, Glasgow G42 8AP
Phone
0141 424 0300
Website
www.desmondmaguire.co.uk
Hours
Telephone usually answered 24 hours. Office visits by appointment.

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Prices on this page are from Desmond Maguire Funeral Directors’s the firm’s own Standardised Price List (published February 2025), on desmondmaguire.co.uk (source), verified September 2026. They may have changed since. Cremation, cemetery and officiant fees are set by third parties and added on top. Always confirm the current total with the funeral director. To correct this listing, contact us.