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Well in Onchan traditionally said to rise and fall with the tide. W. Walter Gill grouped Ballig Well with a small number of Manx wells whose water was believed to fluctuate with the sea. He compared it with Chibber Hidee in the courtyard of Castle Rushen, the name of which he translated as the Tide Well. Gill noted that Chibber Hidee lay sufficiently close to Castletown harbour for tidal movement to have a plausible natural explanation, but Ballig Well was treated in tradition as belonging to the same class of wells. He made the same comparison with Chibber Valthane near Bradda Mooar. That well lay almost half a mile from the sea, yet its water was supposed to be taken at the ebb of the tide. Gill therefore listed Ballig Well, Chibber Hidee and Chibber Valthane together among wells whose behaviour or ritual use was associated with the state of the tide. The present evidence pack preserves no fuller account of Ballig Well itself, and the surviving references are from Gill’s later compilation of Manx well-lore.
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Pool in the Awin Ruy, near its junction with the Glen Roy river in the parish of Lonan, associated with a water-spirit tradition. W. Walter Gill described the pool as shut in on its northern side by a high concave wall of rock, with the stream falling into water screened by small timber. It was usually called simply “the Nikkesen”. The Nikkesen was said to appear either as a horse or pony, like the Glashtyn or Cabbyl-ushtey, or as a handsome young man. In the latter form he drew people, particularly young women, into his dwelling beneath the pool. A small stream entering from the south was identified as the route by which he brought them to the water. Their bodies were said never to have been recovered. At full moon the Nikkesen was instead believed to lead his victims in a singing and dancing procession around the small meadow below the pool, watched by people from the slopes above. Gill also recorded another Nikkesen's Pool in the upper Groudle River, although he said the details of that tradition had probably been forgotten.
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Former settlement on the slopes above Laxey in the parish of Lonan. The name Lhergy Veg was translated by W. Walter Gill as “The Little Slope”. It lay below Eairy Veg, the Little Shealing, and Creg Dhoo, the Dark Rock. By Gill’s time the house at Lhergy Veg had long been deserted and had fallen into decay. Earlier occupants had included weavers, and Gill noted that architectural traces of their work survived in the building. Another resident was remembered as both the “Fairy Doctor” and the “Fairy Tailor”. He practised veterinary cures and other forms of folk medicine as well as tailoring, played the fiddle, and was said to produce tunes from the sounds made by the river among the rocks below the house. Tradition also credited him with remarkable speed. Gill was told that he could set off across the mountains to Douglas for a reel of thread or some other item and return within twenty minutes. Douglas was about ten miles away by road, although Gill dryly calculated it at about eight miles “as the tailor flies”. The abandoned house also acquired a supernatural story involving two weavers. They saw what appeared to be a pair of enormous figures emerging through the hearth, wearing objects described as resembling horses’ blinkers or bridles at the sides of their heads. The men fled to Agneash for help, but when they returned the house was empty.
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Rock cleft and small cascade on the eastern side of North Barrule, in the parish of Maughold, associated with a well-known Buggane tradition. The place was known as Gob ny Scuit and was described in the nineteenth century as a cleft in the rock beside a small cascade. Local people attributed the strange noises heard there in particular winds to a Buggane, or restless spirit, which became known as the Gob ny Scuit Boagane. The spirit was said to wail when the wind was in a certain direction. One account describes it as a disquiet spirit which had met an untimely end. Ballawhane, the celebrated Andreas charm-doctor, was reputed to have tried unsuccessfully to lay it. William Kinnish of Maughold, author of Mona’s Isle and Other Poems (1844), investigated the noises himself. He repeatedly examined the rocks until he discovered that the supposed Buggane was produced by a natural feature: a deep cleft in the face of the rock through which wind and water could produce the sound. Later folklore gave the apparition a more elaborate form. W. Walter Gill recorded that Gob ny Scuit had been haunted by a spectre resembling a man with the head of a cat and large fiery eyes. It was said to howl through the district on winter nights and to be the ghost of a murderer.
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Mountain place-name in Braddan traditionally translated as Kinry’s Grave. An eighteenth-century description of Braddan lists Lhiaght y Kinry among the parish mountains together with Archallagan, Greeba, Slieau Chiarn, part of Argole and Dreemlang. The name was explained as Kinry’s Grave. According to the tradition recorded by Robertson, Kinry accepted a wager to run from Douglas to Bishopscourt and back again completely naked on a day of heavy snow. He reached Bishopscourt but died on the return journey. The account states that, according to tradition, he was buried on the spot where he perished, giving the place its name. The evidence pack contains only this single early description, so the identity of Kinry and the date of the supposed event cannot presently be established.
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Pair of upright slate slabs on the broogh above Dhoon Bay, in the parish of Maughold. W. Walter Gill recorded the stones as standing just above the bay, north of the shore. They were locally called the Giant's Stones, while their Manx name was given as Meir ny Foawyr, “Fingers of the Giant”. Gill described them as smooth slabs of slate, each a few inches thick and about ten feet high by ten feet across. They stood upright and parallel in the ground, approximately eighteen inches apart. One tradition explained them as the giant's fingers. Another said that the stones were the petrified bodies of a giant and his wife. A local wishing custom was attached to the narrow gap between them. The person making the wish stood squeezed between the two slabs, facing north-east towards the sea, with one palm placed flat against each stone. Gill recorded the practice as oral tradition. The present evidence does not establish its age or connect it securely with a particular religious site.
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Landslip site on the west coast north of Fleshwick, associated with a traditional disaster involving the Dalby and Niarbyl fishing fleet. William Cashen recorded the story as part of the customs and superstitions of Manx fishermen. According to the tradition, the fleet from Port Masooyl, the old name he used for the Niarbyl, went out and shot its nets on a Sunday night. A south-easterly storm forced the boats to anchor beneath Cronk-yn-Irree-Laa. Part of the steep cliff then slid into the sea. The surf raised by the falling rock was said to have swamped the boats. Cashen wrote that only one fisherman was left alive in Dalby village after the disaster, living at Ballelby. He also said the site of the landslip, called Garroo Clagh or the Rugged Stone, had been pointed out to him when he was a child by old men then over seventy years of age. They accompanied the story with the warning that he was never to fish on a Sunday night. Gill later placed Garroo Clagh among what were remembered as the three great losses of the Peel herring fleet, together with the Mooir ny Fuill and the Wart near Spanish Head. He noted that the date of the disaster could not be securely established. An anonymous account of the Island published in 1809 already described it as having happened more than a century earlier. Fishing on Sunday had also been restricted by law. Gill noted prohibitions in 1610 and further orders in 1714 and 1752.
1 Albert Terrace Douglas IM1 3LQ
This is a registered house on Albert Terrace, Douglas, a street already established by the mid-Victorian period. No further verifiable historical detail specific to this house could be found.
1 Castle Street Castletown IM9 1LF
This terraced house on Castle Street was registered in 1984 and, according to local history sources, the row it stands in may go back to seventeenth-century buildings shown in Daniel King's 1640s drawings of Castletown. An early twentieth-century trade advert for the address describes it as "Manchester House Restaurant", run by a Mrs Bell, offering board and residence, and in 1833 the same address was recorded as the town Post Office.
1 Parliament Lane Castletown IM9 1LB
Number 1 Parliament Lane is described by local historian William Henry Cooper as an 18th-century cottage notable for panelling on its first floor carved with graffiti depicting sailing ships in an 18th-century style. It was occupied by a shoemaker, R. Kneale, who also worked as a distributor of the evening post, a small domestic survival tucked just off Parliament Square in the old town centre.
1 Quay Lane Castletown IM9 1LE
This house at 1 Quay Lane sits in the small lane linking The Quay to the town centre in Castletown's historic harbour quarter. No verifiable specific history beyond its registered status and general location could be confirmed from available sources.
1 The Parade Castletown IM9 1LG
Known locally as the Red House, this Registered Building on The Parade was entered on the Island's Protected Buildings Register in 1984. One local history account of Castletown notes that a house at this position on The Parade served at one time as Sir James Gell's and the High Bailiff's Office; Gell held a long Manx public career including High Bailiff, Attorney General and First Deemster, though the exact continuity of use at this address cannot be independently confirmed.
1-12 Victoria Terrace Douglas IM2 4EU
1-12 Victoria Terrace is a registered terrace of houses in Douglas. Beyond its listing on the Registered Buildings register and records of routine consent applications for window and roof replacements, no further verifiable historical detail about its construction date or original developer could be confirmed.
1, Malew Street, Castletown
A post-medieval house in Castletown. The structure has been placed on the Protected Buildings Register (No. 31) The ground floor accommodation has long served as a commercial shop.
10th Milestone
The 10th Milestone is one of the numbered mile markers along the Snaefell Mountain Course. No specific history beyond its role as a distance marker was found.
11th Milestone (Drinkwater's Bend)
The 11th Milestone, at about 11.49 miles, is a distinctive S-bend also known as Drinkwater's Bend. It is named after Ben Drinkwater, who crashed fatally at this spot while competing in the 350cc Junior TT race in 1949.
12 Finch Road Douglas IM1 2PT
12 Finch Road stands on a street in central Douglas that dates back to at least the early nineteenth century, referred to as 'Vinche's Road' in an 1831 newspaper reference and as 'Finch's Road' on John Wood's 1833 map, a name recalling the Vinch family, who held land at nearby Ballakermeen. The road became established as a location for professional offices close to the Legislative Buildings and Douglas's main banks. No further verifiable history specific to number 12 itself was found.
12 Geo I c.28 (1726 Act)
British customs legislation which first gave the Treasury statutory authority to negotiate for the purchase of the Isle of Man and the rights of its Lords. British customs officials had complained that the low duties charged on goods entering Mann encouraged a large re-export trade. Foreign goods could be imported cheaply into the Island and later landed clandestinely in Britain or Ireland, while British exporters could receive drawback on goods sent to Mann and then re-land them illicitly in Britain. The Manx legislature attempted to address these complaints in 1711, but the measure was tied to an expectation that Manx produce would be admitted duty-free into Britain. When that concession was not granted, the 1711 Act was suspended by another Act of Tynwald in 1713. The British response moved beyond customs regulation. Section 25 of 12 Geo. I c.28, An Act for the Improvement of His Majesty’s Revenues of Customs, Excise and Inland Duties, authorised the Treasury to negotiate for the purchase or surrender of rights in the Isle and Lordship of Man. The provision named James, Earl of Derby, Henrietta Bridget Ashburnham and those claiming through the Derby title. It authorised agreement for the surrender of estates, regalities, powers, honours, superiorities, jurisdictions, rights, privileges, duties, customs, revenues and other advantages connected with the Island. No purchase followed immediately, but the statutory mechanism remained available. The 1765 Revestment was later carried through under the authority provided by this legislation.
12th Milestone
The 12th Milestone falls in the area of Ballameanagh Corner on the A3. No further specific history beyond its role as a distance marker and its proximity to this corner was found.
13th Milestone
The 13th Milestone serves as a reference point cited for road works near Cronk Urleigh on the A3. No further specific history was found for this marker.
14 Finch Road Douglas IM1 2PT
14 Finch Road stands on a street in central Douglas that dates back to at least the early nineteenth century, referred to as 'Vinche's Road' in an 1831 newspaper reference and as 'Finch's Road' on John Wood's 1833 map, a name recalling the Vinch family, who held land at nearby Ballakermeen. The road became established as a location for professional offices close to the Legislative Buildings and Douglas's main banks. No further verifiable history specific to number 14 itself was found.