When Edgar Allan Poe's Use Of Irony

The irony of the story was that the people of that village believed they had found an easy solution for disposing of their waste. What they didn’t know was that what they had thrown down the hole, was ironically being thrown back to them, on their heads. When the hole was believed to have no bottom, it seemed like an amazing idea just to dispose of unwanted things where it was believed it was "gone" forever. When It was really just “swept under the rug.”