A fragment of a cross-slab was found here in 1928. It measures 63 centimetres x 28 centimetres x 1.3 centimetres. It is one of several cross slabs which were moved and kept at Lezayre parish church.
The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel which would have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000, Cronk yn How was excavated by J.R. Bruce and W. Cubbon in 1928.
The position of the keeill was shown by the occurrence of lintel graves and cross-slabs. Ten cross-slabs were found (7-8th century). Many were associated with burials, 3 others being incorporated in the later building.
The mound was built in the 7th-8th century for a keeill. Subsequently a stone building, measuring 6 metres by 2.4 metres, was built. It appears to have been an oratory chapel with associated burials of Irish type, tentatively assigned to the 12th century.
Not all the burials in the keeill graveyard were of the lintel type. One belonging to the end of the keeill period had an iron knife and 'button' associated with it. Another, possibly a pagan Scandanavian burial with covering slabs, passed beneath the stone building foundations. There was a horse burial on the west side of the mound, represented by the fragmentary remains, but no dating evidence. Iron nails and rivets apparently associated with the burials were of typical 'Viking' date, as were a green glass bead and fragment of a rune-inscribed standing cross also found at this site. The cross-fragment was found loose in the southeast angle of the building. The remains of the stone building stood centrally on the site, a plain spindle whorl and broken upper stone of a rotary quern were also found.
A large stone, with incised figures of animals, was found in the foundations of the building. P.M.C. Kermode and L'Abbe Breuil compared this with certain Scandanavian rock-engravings. The monument is unique in Britain. The stone was of secondary occurrence but its original site must have been near by.
The area also bears evidence of occupation from the Neolithic period onwards, but the earliest definite occupation level was tentatively dated to just before to the first Christian church, and contained at least three hearths and an extensive area of scattered charcoal but produced no datable objects.
The conjectured site of a Neolithic settlement. Finds of Neolithic to Bronze Age artefacts including Neolithic flint flakes, cores, scrapers, knives, and a Middle Bronze Age bronze sickle, were found at some time prior to 1805 in the area surrounding Cronk yn Howe and are thought to indicate the presence of a settlement or occupation in the vicinity.
A ditchless heather covered bowl barrow with gently sloping sides. Its diameter is 16.0 metres and its height 1.9 metres. There is an irregular excavation hollow in the top of the mound which has an approximate diameter of 3.0 metres and a depth of 0.8 metres.
A flint scraper has been found in the vicinity of mound, and a cup-marked stone and piece of calcinated bone have been recorded from the mound itself.
The monument is thought to probably be the landmark known as 'Cronk yn Yeul' mentioned by the Vicar John Bridson in Marown Parish Register of 1780.
Cronk-ny-Fannag is a round cairn now mutilated and grass covered but with stone evident in places on its flat top. Kerbing is visible intermittently around the circumference and the whole is fairly prominent and in reasonable condition. The cairn stands on the highest point of a field that slopes gently to the east. It is approximately 13.0 metres diameter and on the downhill side has a maximum height of 1.0 metre.
The site of a Bronze Age barrow which is now barely discernible and its dimensions cannot accurately be determined. It appears now as an indeterminate swelling, the contour of which merges with the undulations of the pasture field in which it is situated.
A barrow is thought to have existed here, based on the discovery of a funerary urn in the past. There is nothing to be seen at the site now and it is thought that the construction of the road at this point may have caused the discovery of the urn, the exact location of which has not been recorded.
The site of an early medieval chapel or keeill, thought to have been in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. The site is at the north side of the highroad to Cronk-y-Coddy. The name of the keeill is lost but the field is still known as 'Chapel Field'. Several people remembered the removal of the foundations and ploughing of the site in about 1880. Mr Corlett stated that stones from it were placed along the east side of the lane leading into the field where they can still be seen. Nothing remains to mark the site but the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map shows the mound on which the keeill stood. It would have measured circa 12 metres by 7 metres. Evidently it had already been greatly reduced by the plough by that time.
Cronkbourne Village is almost the only example in the Isle of Man of housing erected by a firm for its employees. It was built, probably between 1846 and 1850, by the Moore family for the workers in their sail-cloth mill which was situated a little higher up the river.
The dwellings have been bought and modernised by Braddan Parish Commissioners. The forty-two houses were arranged in two parallel terraces at right angles to the river and despite varied dimensions and arrangement there were only two basic ground-floor plans consisting of two (living room and rear scullery) or three rooms. Except for numbers 8-17 the houses are two-storeyed.
Some two dozen cottages are arranged in two rows parallelling each other separated by a green area on whose axis is focussed a community hall. All of the cottages are of masonry construction cement rendered with slate roofs. Although there is some variation in the designs with a series of bungalows rising with the contour of the ground and some dormer treatment of cottages on the flat land, all buildings are in continuous terraces with a common front plane for their respective rows. The complex thus creates a self contained community around the green space even though one of the rows of cottages backs onto the green while the other fronts onto it. The majority of the cottages have consistent decoration to their rather simply articulated fenestration.
The 'hall' is built of stone with a matching pitched slate roof rising to a bell housing in the gable over the original entrance from the village green. The hall however has been somewhat altered and is now used for non-community purposes. No interior inspections have been made.
A large granite boulder in a private garden at Cronkbreck has been interpreted to be the possible base of a 13th or 14th century cross from "The Crosh", or possibly a medieval font. The "boulder" measures 18 inch long x 11-12 inch wide x 10-13 inch high with rectangular hollows cut into it.
The findspot of a Neolithic trimmed flint flake and another flint implement. The grid reference is located to the centre of former OS Field No 2693 for indicative purposes only.
