This burial mound was excavated during 1980-81 and found to contain burial cists and cremation burials. It lies just over 200 metres SSE of Crosh Mooar Cairn.
The mound is shown as a substantial earthwork on the OS 1:2500 of 1869.
Amongst the finds was a food vessel. This was found inverted over a cremation with a group of grave goods unique in the Isle of Man: these included bone bodkins, a pin and two toggles, a piece of copper from a knife or razor and two clay beads. (Manx Museum Accession No 84-151a). Cordoned sherds associated with a cremation burial were also found. A unique, pressure-flaked, barbed, but not tanged, arrowhead was found nearby.
A grass covered ditchless mound elongated southeast to northwest and built up by 0.7 metres to form an almost level platform 3.5 metres wide x 7.0 metres long. The mound is situated on land falling to the southwest.
No visible trace of a cross remains at the site. The Ordnance Survey marks this 'site of stone cross' but a Mr Crellin, who lived here all his days, says he never heard of an actual cross having been there though the place was always known locally as 'The Crosh' and it was supposed that the people assembled there in the old days to hear proclamations and announcements.
Almost all crosses on the Isle of Man date to the period between the 6th and 13th centuries. They have nearly all been removed to churches or the museum.
A record for the cremation burial discovered in Garey Meen field, The Curragh in association with a Bronze Age barrow (0420.00).
The site was excavated by Philip Moore Callow Kermode (1855-1932), a leading Manx antiquarian, historian and naturalist, who founded the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society in 1879.
This Bronze Age barrow survives as a grass-covered, ditchless mound. It measures 23 metres in diameter and is up to 0.5 metres high, having been reduced by generations of ploughing activity.
Antiquarian sources indicate that the barrow is located in a field called Garey Meen, near the Curragh to the East of the road leading from behind the old church to Ballacrye. Cremation urns were found here containing human ashes.
A Civil War fort north of the Ballure stream is mentioned in 1643 and listed in the inventories of 1694, 1702 and 1713 as the Danes' Fort. This name is thought to be significant and it may have re-used an earlier Iron Age/Viking earthwork. By the mid 18th century 'only the vestiges of the ramparts and a few old unserviceable cannon' were seen. There is no evidence that the fort was renewed in 1757.
From this it has been conjectured that this may have been the site of an Iron Age or Viking promontory fort. The site has been lost to development and coastal erosion. It was intact in 1820 according to Oswald who described it as being similar to that at St Marks 'the circular redoubts of both being high and strong and enclosed by a ditch'.
The site of a series of small mounds recorded by P.M.C. Kermode. Dr Larch S. Garrad was of the opinion that they were shieling mounds, but their origin remains unknown.
The Gaiety Theatre is a cement rendered masonry structure, which is the equivalent of three or four storeys in height, terraced between the Sefton Hotel and the Marina Arcade. The facade (there being really no other 'sides architecture' in that the 'skin deep' decoration has been applied to the surface of the building to stimulate the imagination of would-be customers and the massing of the structure serves to invite them in rather than to indicate what is happening inside. Thus the overall impression is of two rather 'Moorish' commissionaries (3 storeys high) holding an undulating blanket between them for you to pass beneath on a journey to the light hearted. It would not be possible to convey 'charm' if this building were described in purely architectural terms, for it has no such pretentions. It is well named. No interior inspection has been made. The Gaiety Theatre is perhaps the best example of this type of building (or for that matter any entertainment structure) on the island.
The site of a post-medieval horse engine. It had a roofed horse-walk or a wheel-house, which formerly housed the 19th century threshing engine. The structure survives at The Garey and has been converted into a swimming pool.
This earthwork, now of very linear form, is allegedly of prehistoric date and represents a Bronze Age burial mound. There are certainly several monuments of similar origin in the locality - particularly on Peel Hill - and the name associated with it - the Giant's Grave - suggests that a substantial burial cist may have been observed, though no record of such a discovery is known.
The earthwork's linear nature, and relationship with the defences behind it, suggest that it may have an alternative, and more recent, origin as a medieval rampart.
The findspot of a flint scatter of Mesolithic date now held in the Cowley Collection at the Manx Museum.
The area formerly known as the Glebe was part of Ballakilmurray and was centred on the field numbered 1125 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map (the boundaries of which were subsequently subject to minor alteration by the construction of the Manx Northern Railway line).
The findspot of a scatter of early prehistoric flints, including 3 polished flint adzes, a leaf-shaped arrowhead, two flaked arrowheads, a discoid flint knife, and a rectangular scraper.
The findspot of a scatter of Mesolithic flints, which include 8 Heavy-blade type arrowheads, 2 smaller arrowheads, 2 leaf-shaped arrowheads (1 pressure-flaked), 1 diamond shaped arrowhead, 4 flakes, 1 scraper, 1 awl, and 1 core.
A post-medieval public house in Castletown.
This complex structure dates from at least the later 18th century: the older part of the building opposite Castle Rushen is present on a watercolour by John 'Warwick' Smith, whose collection of 26 views of the Isle of Man were prepared in the early 1790s and are notable for their accuracy.
Officially named the Castle Arms, the public house is popularly referred to as the Glue Pot.
The building is inscribed in te Protected Buildings Register (No. 25)
