The Ordnance Survey's 1:2500 scale map of 1870 records a gasometer at this location, and the site is labelled as a 'Gas Works' and 'Gasometer'. Contemporary local newspapers record the manufacture of the gasworks and distribution of gas in Ramsey from 1857.
An exercise book containing a draft roll of honour for Ramsey Grammar School old boys wounded or killed in the Great War (First World War). On the rear page it is noted that the roll is incomplete. In addition "Miss Moysey and the Revd A.S. Newton are thanked for their help thus far."
The roll of honour consists of four columns of names, hand written in pencil. It is currently held in the Library and Archives at the Manx Museum. Archive ref. no. MS 10237/2.
The site of a post-medieval coastal fort. Two coastal gun batteries were in operation around Ramsey harbour mouth during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) and the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1816). To the south of the river mouth, a gun battery was constructed in 1793 and was later replaced in 1816 by a two-gun barbette, described as just to the north of the Harbour Office. A second battery of two guns was established to the north of the rivermouth in 1797 on the Mooragh. Recommendations to move the 1793 and 1797 batteries to more strategic positions were made in 1799, but unless represented by the later construction of the barbette in 1816, no direct action appears to have been taken to meet this requirement.
The site of a post-medieval coastal fort. Two coastal gun batteries were in operation around Ramsey harbour mouth during the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802) and the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1816). To the south of the river mouth, a gun battery was constructed in 1793 and was later replaced in 1816 by a two-gun barbette, described as just to the north of the Harbour Office. A second battery of two guns was established to the north of the rivermouth in 1797 on the Mooragh. Recommendations to move the 1793 and 1797 batteries to more strategic positions were made in 1799, but unless represented by the later construction of the barbette in 1816, no direct action appears to have been taken to meet this requirement.
The site of a post-medieval malthouse in Ramsey, shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. The building was re-used as cloth factory and stone mason's yard after the malthouse closed. Modern buildings now stand on the site.
The site of a Neolithic settlement based on archaeological finds discovered during building operations about 1884.
'On the brooghs overlooking Ramsey Mooragh, building operations about 1884 disclosed an area, at a depth of from four to six foot below the surface, which was strewn with flint cores from which implements had been made, chips struck off in the fabrication, flakes, knives, scrapers of at least three forms, drills or awls, arrowheads, and a few stone hammers, with great numbers of broken fragments. All the implements where small, for the most part very rudely formed, though some were rather more finely finished. A few are here reproduced from drawings by Mr H. Walkey of examples found by him at Ramsey. Three burial places were met with in this area, with fragments of decomposed bones in rude cists also broken pottery and ashes with traces of calcined and decomposed bone. Some of these remains may possibly have been of Bronze Age date, the platform having been apparently occupied for a lengthy period'.
A surface scatter of Mesolithic flints was also revealed by erosion of glacial deposits on the coastal cliffs North of Ramsey. These were mainly collected by P.M.C. Kermode and included cores, blades/flakes, scrapers, microliths and micro-burins, now kept in the Manx Museum.
Ramsey Pier or Queen's Pier was designed by Sir John Coode for the Isle of Man Harbour Board and work started in 1882. The pier was officially opened by Bishop Rowley Hill in 1886. The pier closed in 1990 and then underwent extensive restoration from 2015, with the first three sections being reopened in 2021.
The site of Ramsey shipyard, which was established in the 1830s and continues in operation today. Initially occupied in the construction of timber, and later iron, ships, the shipyard was centred around a patent slipway by the time of the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. This has since been built over, and the business operates from a larger slipway which occupies a former dock just to the west of the old slipway. Other buildings present on the 1870 map have since been replaced by modern workshops.
Lists of 113 names listed on sides of monument and on curb. First World War. Red Dorset sandstone column with Celtic cross at the top.; 4 slate plaques around the base and a further 10 slate plaques facing the column on a sandstone curb that surrounds the main column.
Unveiled on 30 September 1930 by Major General Sir Wm. Fry and dedicated by the Lord Bishop J.D. Thompson. Architect - P.M.C. Kermode Sculptor and builder - Mr T.H. Royston. (Isle of Man Times 2 October 1920, p.7). The names of those commemorated from the Second World War were unveiled on 4 November 1951.
A single worked flint blade, apparently recovered during the construction of a carpark and tennis court at Castle Rushen High School, Castletown (previously Ordnance Survey Field no. 3113, Red Gap).
The blade measures 27mm overall, with a maximum width of 14mm.
The artefact is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1984-0090.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 large scale mapping of 1867 records a small field at this location used as a stackyard (Manx, 'haggard'). The enclosure still exists but is now occupied by an agricultural yard and building.
The grid reference provided indicates the centre of the stackyard as originally recorded by the OS.
The site of a post-medieval brickworks. A single building at the roadside with a clay pit to its south is shown in the field numbered Plot 2459 on the 1870 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map. The site now lies within the garden of a modern house.
A few worked flints were found in the vicinity of a possible iron working site, but were probably prehistoric and unconnected with the iron working activity.
The findspot of an early prehistoric flint scatter. It included worked flint, 3 end scrapers (bull-nosed type), flakes etc., at least one of which was calcinated. Some fragments of coarse pottery or baked clay were also found.
The site of a medieval iron smelting site. Traces of reddened soil, iron slag and charcoal (but no pottery) were found here, similar to that found at the medieval iron smelting site at Ballavarry.
A few worked flints (PRN 0331.10) were also found at the site, but were probably prehistoric and unconnected with the iron working activity.
