This is from the website manx.net--their page on the tower:
Thomas Corrin was apparently strongly associated with Athol Street Congregational Church in Douglas and wanted nothing to do with the established church expressing a wish that he too should be buried on the hill. The usual tale is told that his son had apparently turned religious and refused to bury his father in unconsecrated ground and thus interred him in Kirk Patrick churchyard. That night his friends exhumed the body and moved it to the hill; a compromise was struck by consectrating the walled area alongside the tower. However the Manx Sun 12 Sept 1845 merely states:
Novel Funeral
The late Mr Thomas Corrin of Knockaloe Beg, in the Parish of Patrick was interred on Tuesday in the Dissenters' burial ground beside the Tower, on Knockaloe hill. A large concourse of friends and neighbours attended. At the grave the 66th hymn of Dr Watts second book was sung. A suitable address was delivered by the Rev Saml Haining, and the solemn service concluded by prayer.
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