A large slab found at the site of a chapel and burial ground (IOMHER 1003.00) at Ballelby. The site was known as Keeill yn Chairn ('Chapel of the Lord') but is now ploughed down. The stone bears an unusual cross on one face. It is formed from five closely set squares, four representing a limb, and the fifth set in the centre to form the body of the cross. The outline of each square is incomplete, as if it were originally intended to be joined to its neighbour.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballelby by CH Cowley.
No further details concerning the discovery were recorded and the grid reference relates to the farmstead for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
The site of an early medieval cross which was found at the chapel and burial ground known as Keeill yn Chiarn. The fine cross slab is now set up at the barn of the nearby farm (cross slab No 49).
A woollen mill is shown here on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. This was originally the site of a tuck-mill built by one Ann Killey. It was later used as carding mill as part of Moore's Tynwald woollen mills complex until circa 1920.
The site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, which has been landscaped in modern times. The lower area would indicate an original diameter of 9.0 metres. In the centre is a heap of small and fairly large stones, none of which appear to be in situ, which are now a grass covered oval dump 4.0 metres in diameter and 0.8 metres high. There is no trace of a ditch.
The site of a very denuded barrow. It is a ditchless bowl barrow with a diameter of 25 metres and minimum height of 0.4 metres. It was under corn stubble when recorded and showed no heavier scattering of stones than does the surrounding ground. By its gentle slopes and topographical situation it is probably Bronze Age, not Viking, in date.
The cumulative recovery over several decades of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts, including a dozen stone axes, from Ballnahowe farm (PRN 0042, farmstead at SC19056845) and the Howe (PRN 0048, placename centred on Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map at SC19186810), would tend to suggest the presence of Neolithic settlement somewhere in the locality.
Modern watermill and associated water management.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a pair of roofless buildings at the grid reference provided.
The structures have been identified as a mill and a miller's house. The construction of a mill at Ballure was licensed in 1732. It was damaged by flooding and appears to have been abandoned by 1841, since no miller is recorded in the census for the area.
The mill stood very close to the watercourse and was served by a leat and tail race of only minimal length.
The area is now occupied by a modern pumping station.
Modern watermill.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a roofless building at the grid reference provided.
The structure has been identified as a mill. The construction of a mill at Ballure was licensed in 1732. It was damaged by flooding and appears to have been abandoned by 1841, since no miller is recorded in the census for the area.
The mill stood very close to the watercourse and was served by a leat and tail race of only minimal length.
The area is now occupied by a modern pumping station.
