Types of Monuments We Offer

A Celtic memorial is one of many ways to honor a life. Browse the full range and see what speaks to you:

• Traditional Monuments — Classic upright designs that have marked family plots for generations.
• Distinctive Shapes — One-of-a-kind silhouettes designed around a life, a passion, or a story.
• Christian Monuments — Crosses, praying hands, and sacred imagery for families of faith.
• Jewish Monuments — Memorials designed in keeping with Jewish tradition and custom.
• Hearts — Single, double, and triple hearts, the enduring symbol of love.
• Laser & Glass Art Etchings — Portraits, scenes, and fine detail etched into polished granite.
• Hand Carved Monuments — Sculpted stone artistry shaped by hand, not by machine.
• Classic Shapes — Timeless forms with clean, quiet lines.
• Bronze & Gold Leaf Lettering — Rich lettering and accents that catch the light for decades.

Not sure where to begin? Our memorial options page lays out everything side by side, or you can view all our memorials at once.

The Benefits of Working with a Locally Trusted Monument Company

Celtic designs are among the most demanding a monument shop can take on, and the details are exactly where a lesser one falls short.

Knotwork is the clearest test. Real Celtic interlace has to weave over and under itself continuously, without a break, and carving that convincingly into granite takes skill and patience. Done well, it draws the eye and holds it for a century. Done poorly, the pattern reads as a muddle and the whole memorial suffers. Our craftsmen carve this work themselves, so we can hold it to the standard the tradition deserves rather than accepting whatever a distant factory ships back.

Getting the form right matters just as much. An authentic Celtic cross isn't simply a cross with a ring added, and the proportions, the way the ring meets the arms, and the balance of the whole piece are what separate a genuine design from an approximation. If you want to include Irish Gaelic wording, a family motto, or a crest, we'll help you confirm the spelling and heraldry before it's cut, because a mistake carved in stone is permanent.

Beyond the artistry, working locally means someone who knows the region's cemeteries handles the practical side, from approval to a foundation built for our climate and a set performed by our own crew. You get authenticity and accountability from the same shop, start to finish.

Monument Services in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre & Northeast PA

Families honoring their heritage across the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys come to us for:

• Celtic cross monuments, from understated to elaborately carved, with authentic ringed forms
• Celtic knotwork and interlace, carved with the continuity and depth the pattern requires
• Irish symbols and emblems, including the Claddagh, harp, shamrock, trinity knot, and more
• Family crests, mottos, and Gaelic inscriptions, with spelling and heraldry confirmed before carving
• Hand-carved detail work for designs that call for true sculptural artistry
• Bronze and gold leaf accents that highlight knotwork and lettering beautifully
• Foundation work and installation, set and sealed by our own team
• Restoration and additions to existing Irish family monuments, including lettering later generations onto a shared stone

Because heritage is often something families think about across time, we help at every stage. If you've recently lost someone, our at-need guidance helps you move forward without pressure. If you're planning ahead so your own heritage is honored exactly as you'd wish, preplanning puts every choice in your hands. And if a plot is still to be settled, our cemetery plot checklist helps you plan a family plot with room for the generations to come.

Why Families Trust Monuments by Parise

Heritage is about what carries forward, and that's exactly what our family has tried to build. We've served the area's families since 1941, across more than eight decades and the generations within them. In 1997 we opened our monument company, trained under a memorial specialist with more than 40 years in the trade, and set out to earn the kind of trust that gets handed from parents to children.

You see that continuity in how we work. The same shop that carves a family's first Celtic cross is still here years later to letter the next name onto it. Our own craftsmen do the cutting, carving, and lettering, drawing from one of the region's largest selections of granite and bronze, and our own crew sets each memorial on a foundation we build. There's no handing your family's heritage off to strangers.

Our written guarantee is meant to last as long as the heritage it marks: the granite is certified free from defects and won't chip, crack, or disintegrate, bronze is cast by quality foundries with lettering hand chased and highlighted, and any defective part is replaced at no expense to you or your heirs.

And you can take your time choosing, in person and year round, at the area's only all-inclusive indoor monument showroom in Blakely. Learn more about our family's story, or read what other families have said on our testimonials page.

Trusted in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre & NEPA

We craft Celtic and Irish monuments for families throughout Northeast Pennsylvania, including Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Blakely, Carbondale, Pittston, Dickson City, Olyphant, Jessup, Archbald, Dunmore, Clarks Summit, Peckville, Throop, Taylor, Old Forge, Moosic, Avoca, Duryea, Forest City, Honesdale, Tunkhannock, and the surrounding towns.

Few places in America are as deeply Irish as this one. When the anthracite mines drew waves of Irish immigrants to the coal region in the 1800s, they put down roots that still define these towns, in the parishes they built, the Ancient Order of Hibernians halls, the St. Patrick's parades that fill Scranton and Pittston every March, and the hard, proud history of the mine patches. Generations of those families rest in cemeteries across the valleys, and their descendants come to us wanting a memorial that says where they came from. We consider it an honor to carve that story in stone.

Three locations keep us within reach: our Blakely showroom at 1975 Scranton Carbondale Highway, our Carbondale display at 89 Farview Street, and our Clifford display at 18 Airport Road.

Contact Us For Celtic & Irish Monuments in Northeast PA Today

A Celtic memorial ties a person to a heritage that stretches back centuries, and it deserves to be carved with authenticity and skill. The team at Monuments By Parise will help you choose the crosses, knotwork, and symbols that honor your family's roots, confirm every detail before we cut, and set a memorial built to carry your heritage for generations.



Call Monuments By Parise at 570-382-3558 or contact us online today to learn more about Celtic and Irish monuments in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Northeast Pennsylvania.