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Cregneash Shipping Direction Finding Station
The Cregneash Shipping Direction Finding Station was a mid-20th century installation located on Cronk-ny-Array hill to the east of Cregneash. Two masts are shown on historical OS 1:10560 scale mapping published in 1958 to the south and east of the technical buildings, together with the annotation, 'Automatic Wireless Transmitting Direction-finding Station (Shipping)'. The masts have now been removed and the buildings converted for residential use.
Cringle Great Park, Intack Mooar Clearance Cairn
A record of a clearance cairn of possible late prehistoric date.
Cringle Stone Circle
This is an alleged Bronze Age stone circle, but may in fact be a natural feature.
Crofton
A post-medieval house in Castletown. This building has been placed on the Protected Buildings Register (No. 260)
Crogga Bridge Cottages, Santon
Post-medieval cottages at Crogga Bridge, Santon.
Crogga Burial Cist
The reported site of a burial cist of probable late Neolithic or Bronze Age date, described as a "cist vaen with urn" from Crogga.
Crogga Corn Mill
The site of a post-medieval corn mill.
Crogga Glen, Port Soderick Stone Circle
The conjectured and unproven site of a Bronze Age stone circle. Savage noted four stones here, some 4.8 metres apart. No further evidence is recorded of such a monument.
Crogga House, Santon
A post-medieval house.
Croit
Flakes, blades, core and a nodule of Mesolithic heavy-blade type, and a Bronze Age sherd, were recovered by fieldwalking from Ordnance Survey Field no. 1464, Croit, Arbory. The flints and potsherd were found separately, but no further details are available. The grid reference refers to the centre of the field.
Croit
Flakes, blades, core and a nodule of Mesolithic heavy-blade type, were recovered by fieldwalking from Ordnance Survey Field no. 1464, Croit, Arbory. The flints and potsherd were found separately, but no further details are available. The grid reference refers to the centre of the field. The flints are in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1984-0252/2.
Croit
A Bronze Age sherd was recovered by fieldwalking from Ordnance Survey Field no. 1464, Croit, Arbory. The flints and potsherd were found separately, but no further details are available. The grid reference refers to the centre of the field. The sherd is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1984-0252/1.
Croit e Caley Corn Drying Kiln
Modern corn drying kiln. A corn-drying kiln was discovered during ploughing on Croit e Caley farm, Colby in 1968. An emergency excavation revealed a substantial though much ruined structure. Clear traces of burning, with large quantities of charcoal, were found, together with a well-preserved 'drying-pot' built of cobbles, and a millstone. Paving and a possible flue were also identified. No dating evidence was found, but its excavator AM Cubbon and BRS Megaw (1969) consider a 17th-18th century date is likely.
Croit e Caley Cross Slab (Manx Cross 180)
This rough slab was found built into a corn-drying kiln at Croit e Caley (IOMHER 0187.00) in 1968. On one face it bears a roughly pecked cross, with equal upper and side arms, and a longer lower arm.
Croit e Caley Flint Scatter
Worked flints, comprising four blades were found at Croit e Caley, Rushen. The precise findspot is not known, and the grid reference relates to the old farmstead. The objects are in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1971-0096.
Croit e Caley Methodist Chapel Roll of Honour (IOM_NIWM_RUS_00010)
There are three columns containing 50 names, listed alphabetically except for the last five names. Four names are encircled in black, indicating that these men died during the war. First World War Framed Roll of Honour. Following the closure of the Croit e Caley Chapel, in 2016 MNH was advised by the Reverend Richard Hall that "the roll of honour is now in the District office (Trinity Methodist Church, Bucks Rd, Douglas) along with some other materials from Croit e Caley."
Croit e Caley Primitive Methodist Chapel
Modern chapel. The Primitive Methodist chapel at Croit e Caley replaced an earlier chapel at Kentraugh in 1881. The chapel was later extended by the addition of a Sunday school attached to the south gable. It is now a private dwelling.
Croit e Caley Primitive Methodist Chapel
Modern chapel. The Primitive Methodist chapel at Croit e Caley replaced an earlier chapel at Kentraugh in 1881. A roll of honour commemorates 50 men from Colby and the surrounding district who fell in the First World War. It closed in 2014 and was subsequently sold. It is now a private dwelling.
Croit e Caley Primitive Methodist Chapel
Modern chapel. The Primitive Methodist chapel at Croit e Caley replaced an earlier chapel at Kentraugh in 1881. The Sunday school was later added by extending from the southerly gable. It is now a private dwelling.
Croit Flint Scatter
The findspot of an early prehistoric flint scatter found by Mr Alan Skillan during fieldwalking.
Croit ny Howe Keeill
The possible site of an early medieval chapel or keeill known as Keeill Croit ny Howe. The site of the keeill is remembered on Ballafayle y Kerruish, a property given in Wood's Atlas as part of the Barony of St Bees. The site is now in a small field or croft on the southern margin of Port Mooar, numbered as Plot 1524 on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
Croit ny Howe, Clay Head Burial Cairn
The site of a Neolithic barrow.
Croit ny Mona Flint Scatter
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.
Croit ny Mona Flint Scatter
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.
Croit ny Mona School
The site of a former school, which is shown on the 1870 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map. It is no longer in use and has been converted for residential purposes.