Westcountry Willows are a husband and wife team based in Co Roscommon. Kate and Alan Burrows make coffins created from 100 per cent sustainable Irish willow grown on their own land. Photograph: Michael McLaughlinA Co Roscommon-based business is offering terminally ill people and bereaved families and individuals a unique opportunity – to participate in the creation of a handmade willow coffin for themselves or a loved one.
“It’s a service I don’t think anyone in Ireland is offering,” said Kate Burrows who, along with her husband Alan, has planted a quarter-acre of fast-growing willow on the small holding they purchased some years ago near Ballinlough for use in their enterprise. Ms Burrows said the memory of her mother, Mary Brown, was central to them starting Westcountry Willows.
“Mum was laid to rest in a willow coffin over in Somerset. It was like nesting her in a thing of natural beauty,” she said. “It gave me a lot of comfort when Mum died to lay her to rest in this way and it made me wish that I was making similar coffins so that other families could benefit.”
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