The site of a well-preserved sheiling mound within the Block Eary settlement, which is thought to be of early medieval date. It is a very irregular mound with a tail stepped down to the south. Its length north to south is 13.0 metres and its average width is 8.0 metres. Its average height is 1.5 metres. It appears to have held a building stepped up in two stages - the upper part appears to have been rectangular.
The site of a Bronze Age or Early Medieval barrow. It survives as a ditchless, grass-covered barrow with a diameter of 8.0 metres and height of 1.0 metres. A small mound has been added to the surviving southern section, but the original southern edge has been ploughed away.
This barrow was recorded as being "2 to 3 foot" high in 1928 at which time flints were found here, which may point to a prehistoric date for the feature.
In the four corners of this framed declaration are the names of King Edward VII, Queen Alexandra, Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Milner.
Boer War.
Plaque reported as missing in 2012 after refurbishment at the Royal British Legion Hall.
A place-name found at Peel at least as early as 1703 is evidently 'Boayly Spittal' i.e. 'place of the hospital' but there is no record of a hospital, medieval or otherwise, at this site. The name has been identified with the area of land on the east side of the Patrick road at least as far as St German's Place.
The grid reference provided is for indicative purposes only and is approximately centred on the landholding.
A fort surrounded by ditch and circular bank shows also the ruin of a long house similar to that at Poyll Vaish, which proved to be pre-Viking. In the north, west and southwest, steep natural slopes fall to the sea and a steep-sided river course.
There are no natural defences on the east side where fragmentary portions of an artificial ditch is all that remains of the outer defences. The remainder of this ditch has been incorporated in and destroyed by a modern boundary wall. The ditch is 4.0 m wide and 0.5 m deep. Around the east periphery of the interior of the fort, which is raised a minimum of 2.0 m above the surrounding ground, is a bank 2.0 m wide with an inner height of 0.3 m. A crescentic bank 3.0 m wide with an average height of 0.5 m, forms an enclosure with the steep hill side which is comparable to similar enclosures at the side of the Knoc y Trodden vitrified fort. It is grass covered with no visible trace of interior constructions.
The entrance was probably created by a weak bank extending north from the crescentic enclosure bank and the slight overlapping created by the outward swing of the bank around the upper periphery of the fort. In respect of the enclosure bank, this promontory fort is unique among several otherwise similar forts on the island.
Iron Age or Medieval defended promontory. This west-facing coastal promontory is defended on all sides by quite steep vegetated slopes descending to rocks, except to the east where a ditch 4m wide and 1m deep impedes an approach from the land; no obvious causeway is apparent. The landward side of the ditch is protected by a bank which is most obvious towards the north and south terminals.
The interior of the promontory is slightly higher than the ground to the east, and contains a roughly level platform measuring 15m E-W by 25m N-S. A slight bank surrounds the platform and is most prominent along the east or landward side where is about 1m wide with and 0.6m high, broken at SC22171478013 for a distance of 3m which may represent the original entrance. No trace of interior structures has been observed.
Undated standing stone.
This large white quartz boulder stands close to the crest of a south-facing slope overlooking Skibrick Hill, which lies just to the south.
It stands 1.5m high and is more than 2m broad across on its widest face. It has a clear view across the valley south towards a similar stone on Skibrick Hill.
There is a well established local tradition that the Billown 'Circle' (PRN 0146) and the standing stones surrounding it are closely associated.
A record for a corn mill based on a reference in manorial records from 1515, 1643 and 1703. A corn mill is shown in the Glen Wyllin valley on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
The Hill of Day Watch and Port of the Night Watch (Watch and Ward) for Michael parish was at 'Borodaill' according to a document in the Castle Rushen Papers dated 1627.
William Cubbon thought the name was related to 'Bordall Mill' mentioned in a Manorial Roll of 1515, and placed it at Glen Mooar, adjoining Ballagawne where there was a mill.
Many of the Watch and Ward posts may well used the same sites since the medieval period. In the case of Michael parish, the exact site, or sites, at which the respective day and night watches were kept, are not precisely known: the grid reference provided is near the present mouth of the glen, and is for indicative purposes only
A possible Viking sword and battle-axe were reportedly discovered in a burial cist at Borrance. Oswald refers to a report given by the proprietor of Borrane of 'a basket-handled sword of great size and a battle axe... discovered in a stone coffin, rudely formed'.
Borrane is the name of an earthwork on the quarterland of Ballelby (at SC 21527892) as well as the name of another quarterland in the neighbourhood.
Medieval grave.
A single lintel grave was found in May 1930 by workmen extracting sand from a small sand-pit in Bowling Green Road, Castletown. The grave was found to be covered by a worn and cracked upper mill-stone with a bold design worked upon its upper surface, in place of the usual transverse slabs.
The sand-pit in which the grave was discovered was visited by J.R. Bruce in 1966 whilst researching for the Manx Archaeological Survey published in 1968. The sand-pit was almost completely filled in and grass-grown, and there were no signs of other graves.
There is no known tradition of either a chapel or a graveyard in the area, and no record of any other similar finds ever having been made.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867 marks a rope works at this location together with the annotation 'Old Rope Walk'.
The rope walk is shown extending approximately E-W for a distance of 180 metres.
This three storey terrace of Victorian houses is cement rendered and has slate pitched roofing. The major portion of the terrace, which has slightly higher floor-floor heights, is occupied by the senior section of the Buchan School for girls. Since the terrace was not designed for this purpose there has been extensive renovation to the interior of much of the terrace, none of which is visible to the outside. The vertical proportion of the rectangular windows is repeated on all floors and the main facade is devoid of decoration except at the northern end of the ground floor where a molded cornice links the end of the terrace with a portico over the main entrance. The panel of cement rendering enclosed by the cornice and the portico is treated to look like cut stone. Several of the openings at the ground floor consist of lanes through to the rear of the property. The building for the most part is in extremely poor repair. There is nothing to distinguish this terrace other than its scale which tends to dominate an otherwise two storey neighbourhood. The presence of the Buchan School constitutes a problem rather than an advantage. There would seem to be no strong reason to consider this terrace for preservation in a community rich with more worthwhile buildings. The terrace does not occupy an important site in the community.
The above assessment was prepared prior to the existence of Registered Building and Conservation Area legislation on the Isle of Man in order to evaluate whether the buildings were worthy of individual protection on inclusion within a conservation area. In the event neither the buildings nor the area have received formal protection.
The grid reference is centred on the five taller properties which comprised the former Buchan School accommodation and were originally built as a piece.
