Ballacrye Corner, at about 17.84 miles, is famous for a drop in the road that launches many racing motorcycles briefly into the air - reputedly the fastest and most dangerous jump on the entire Mountain Course. Spectating is prohibited immediately after the jump, but excellent, permitted views are available before it, making it a well-known photo point for the airborne machines.
This farmhouse stands at Balladoole, a short distance from Castletown, on a site whose surrounding landscape is one of the Isle of Man's most significant historic monument areas: nearby Chapel Hill has yielded a Bronze Age burial, an Iron Age hillfort, the remains of an early Christian keeill chapel, and a tenth-century Viking boat burial, all excavated in the 1940s by the German archaeologist Gerhard Bersu while interned on the Island during the Second World War. The farmhouse itself is registered for its architectural or historic interest, though no detailed documentary history specific to the building was found.
Ballagawne Gate House on Mount Gawne Road, Colby, is registered as a gate house. No further verifiable historical detail about this building could be found online.
The former Ballaglass Power Station, in the parish of Maughold near Cornaa, was registered as a protected building in May 1989. The site sits close to Ballaglass Glen, on the northern section of the Manx Electric Railway between Laxey and Ramsey, but beyond its official listing no detailed published history of the station's construction or operating life has been found.
The Ballaharra Stones are the remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb discovered in 1971 during the extension of Ballaharra Sandpit and excavated by archaeologist Sheila Cregeen for the Manx Museum; the site was radiocarbon dated to around 2300 BC and is thought to belong to the same megalithic tradition as Cashtal yn Ard and King Orry's Grave. Four of the surviving stones were re-erected near St John's, opposite the parish church close to Tynwald Hill.
Ballahutchin Hill, around the 3.2-mile mark, is a long climbing straight that passes Glenlough farm, with a campsite sitting at the crest of the rise. It is a topographic name for the hill itself rather than a point tied to any recorded racing incident.
Ballakeighan is reached early on the 4.25-mile Billown Circuit lap out of Castletown, which the Southern Motor Cycle Club first raced in July 1955. Wikipedia's history of the circuit records fatal racing accidents at Ballakeighan Corner in both 1992 (Roger Allen) and 2013 (David Jukes), reflecting its reputation as one of the course's faster, more demanding bends.
Country estate in Kirk Patrick, associated particularly with Sir George Moore and his family.
Ballamoore belonged in the eighteenth century to Sir George Moore, merchant, shipowner and member of the House of Keys. An account of the Moore family describes it as his country house, to whose grounds and gardens he devoted considerable attention. His business interests were much wider: he owned or held shares in vessels trading overseas and was a partner in a bank in Glasgow.
Robertson listed Ballamoore among the principal estates of Kirk Patrick. He also noted Sir George Moore among those introducing improved agricultural practices, particularly in relation to turnips.
The family papers preserve much of the domestic life of the house. Ballamoore became a refuge for several of Sir George's grandchildren when the fortunes of his sons deteriorated. His daughter-in-law wrote from Ireland thanking him and Lady Moore for caring for her children while her husband Philip sought a new start in America.
Philip Moore wrote back after reaching America and offered to send his father a flowering shrub which had impressed him there — a magnolia — to beautify the gardens at Ballamoore.
The family's difficulties continued. Philip later returned from America and by the spring of 1786 was confined in the Marshalsea Prison in Dublin over a claim connected with the failed affairs of his brother James. Family correspondence repeatedly brought the consequences back to Ballamoore, where wives and children were supported by Sir George.
Sir George Moore died on 1 October 1787, aged seventy-eight.
Ballanorris is among the Billown Circuit's named corners with a recorded accident history. Wikipedia's article on the circuit lists two riders, Michael Bellerby and Matthew Wood, killed there in 1995, and a further fatality, Phillip Dongworth, in 2009.
Ballaradcliffe House on Kiondroghad Road, Andreas, is registered simply as a house. No further verifiable historical detail about this specific property could be found online.
Village in the parish of Malew, immediately beside Rushen Abbey and the Silverburn.
Ballasalla grew at an important crossing of the Silverburn on the road between Castletown and the centre of the Island. Its oldest surviving structure is the Crossag, or Monk's Bridge, which nineteenth-century antiquaries considered likely to date from the period of the neighbouring abbey.
The bridge was already regarded as ancient in Waldron's time. A note in the Manx Society edition of his description called the Ballasalla crossing the oldest of the Manx bridges and connected it directly with Rushen Abbey. Bridge maintenance was a public responsibility: an Act of Tynwald in 1739 levied one penny a year on inhabitants between sixteen and sixty to repair decayed bridges and provide new crossings elsewhere.
Rushen Abbey stood immediately outside the village on the western bank of the Silverburn. The abbey buildings, lands, mills and tenants shaped Ballasalla for centuries, while the river supplied both the religious house and the later village.
Ballasalla also served as a local market and fair centre. Waldron's notes identify it as a market for fowls, and Robertson's eighteenth-century list records fairs at Ballasalla in April, August and September.
The village stood on the route between Castletown and Douglas, close to the crossing towards Derbyhaven and Ronaldsway. Its position beside the abbey, river and bridge made it one of the principal stopping points in the southern interior.
Ballaugh Old Church, dedicated to St Mary de Ballaugh, stands at The Cronk, about 1.5 miles north of the present village, on a site first recorded in a Papal Bull of 1231 and, like other ancient Manx parish churches, almost certainly the successor to earlier Celtic and Norse churches. The church holds an 11th-century Runic Cross, the only one found in Ballaugh, showing the hand of the noted sculptor Gaut, with weathered runic lettering commemorating "Ouliabr Loitulfsunr" in memory of his son Ulb. In 1717, Bishop Thomas Wilson had the church lengthened by 21 feet and gave it a simple baroque west front topped with a bell-cote. In 1877 the grave of a young chieftain, predating the arrival of Christianity on the Island by centuries, was uncovered about 100 yards east of the churchyard wall. The church now standing dates from a rebuilding in 1832, after the parish's active worship moved to the newer church in Ballaugh village.
Ballaugh Parish War Memorial stands on Glen Road in the village of Ballaugh. Beyond its status as the parish's registered war memorial, no further verifiable detail, such as its unveiling date, designer, or dedication, could be confirmed online.
Ballaugh ('town of the lake') is a village on the A3 about seven miles west of Ramsey, notable for its old parish church of St Mary de Ballaugh, first recorded in a Papal Bull of 1231. Bishop Thomas Wilson added a baroque west front in 1717, and in 1830-32 the parish voted to build a new, larger church nearer the village centre, leaving the atmospheric old church and its churchyard - home to a runic cross erected, per Kermode's classic reading, by Thorlaf son of Thorjolf in memory of his own son Olave (a separate modern transliteration instead gives Olaf Liotulfson, in memory of his son Ulf) - as a separate historic site by the coast.
Ballavarry Farmhouse on Bernahara Road, Andreas, is registered as a farmhouse. No further verifiable historical detail specific to the farmhouse itself could be confirmed online.
Ballawhetstone is a named corner on the Billown Circuit; Wikipedia's article on the course records two fatal accidents there in a single year, 2003, involving riders Andy Brown and John Dowling.
This iron and steel viaduct on Ballure Road carried the Manx Electric Railway across Ballure Glen and was built in 1899, the year the line's final extension into the centre of Ramsey opened (the earlier 1898 line from Laxey had terminated just short, at Ballure). It was formally granted protected status by the Isle of Man Government in September 2025 as one of a group of historic transport landmarks recognised for their engineering and railway heritage.
Ballure Chapel stands within the ancient Treen of Ballure, on the site of one of the early Christian "Kiels" that predate the Island's formal parish churches, and is generally referred to as Ballure or Ramsey Chapel, though it has also been called St Catherine's. In 1712, the occupants of the Treen's quarterlands, together with the inhabitants of Ramsey, were assessed to keep the chapel in repair, and it was lengthened to 61 feet in 1743. As Ramsey's population grew in the early nineteenth century the chapel could no longer hold the congregation, leading to the construction of St Paul's Church in the town in 1822. Ballure's graveyard was traditionally used as a "potter's field" for the burial of strangers, while long-established Ramsey families continued to bury their dead at their older parish churches.
Ballure Cottage stands on Ballure Road, Ramsey. Beyond confirming its address and Registered Building status, no verifiable historical detail about this specific cottage was found online.
English Caribbean colony which appears alongside the Isle of Man in studies of resistance to the English Commonwealth after the execution of Charles I.
In 1649 the abolition of the monarchy created problems well beyond England. A constitutional study published in 1929 grouped Manxmen with Jerseymen, Barbadians, Antiguans, Virginians, Scots and Irish people who accepted Charles II as the lawful monarch but resisted the authority of the new English republic.
The comparison reflects the position of several territories in the crisis of 1649–1652. Barbados declared for Charles II and was eventually brought to terms by Commonwealth forces. Mann remained under the Stanley government until 1651, when Parliamentary forces arrived and the Island surrendered.
The source uses Barbados and Mann as parallel examples within a wider argument about the authority claimed by the English Parliament over territories owing allegiance to the Crown. It does not suggest a direct political relationship between Barbados and Mann.
The present evidence pack contains much general material on Barbados, but this is the clearest passage establishing its relevance to the Manx historical record.
Mediterranean trading centre which supplied goods entering the Isle of Man during the eighteenth-century running trade.
By the 1750s Barcelona was one of the foreign sources feeding the Manx entrepôt. A contemporary account of smuggling from the Island stated that coarse Spanish brandy from Cette and Barcelona was being bought for about ten pence English per gallon and sold from Mann to smuggling boats for about eighteen pence. More than 4,000 gallons of such brandy were said to have been seized around Whitehaven in a single year.
Barcelona silks and handkerchiefs also appear in the surviving records. In September 1764 an observer reported that the Lurcher cutter took aboard tea, china, brandy and fifteen dozen Barcelona silk handkerchiefs while at Mann.
The same type of goods appears in Irish revenue material. In January 1765 John Wetherall described the “Isle Man package” used by revenue officers when identifying goods believed to have come from Mann, including tea, tobacco, spirits, Indian and Barcelona handkerchiefs and other foreign merchandise.
After Revestment the trade changed sharply. In proposals to the Treasury, William Lutwidge reported that illicit trade had been largely extinguished. The foreign goods imported since the Crown acquired the Island included some Barcelona silks brought in before a later prohibition, together with wine and fruit from Spain.
This building at 1 Market Square was designed by architect Thomas Brine and built by public subscription in 1830 on the site of the old 'Baby Tower', originally serving as public shambles or butchers' market with a covered ground floor of open arches sheltering market traders and a cool butter market beneath; the upper rooms briefly served as a Customs House and later as Assembly Rooms hosting the mid-20th-century Athol Club, complete with snooker tables and a reading room. Around 1889 the building became home to the Manx Bank, passing to Martin's Bank by the 1930s, and it has since housed Barclays Bank for over four decades, retaining its Georgian arcaded ground floor as a distinctive feature of Castletown's Market Square.
