There may have been an early settlement at Ballakaighen. A dug-out canoe was found here, along with piles and baulks of timber and a quantity of flint flakes, when draining a field south of the railway cutting at a point some 400 metres west of the house and 460 metres southwest of Glen Cam. The canoe was just over 4.25 metres long, and is probably of Bronze Age date. It was purchased by the Manx Museum. The canoe was found in association with two stone cists and 13 oak piles. To the north was a considerable area of burnt soil, stones and charcoal. Further inland, to the southwest, further traces of burning have been found with more oak piles, while throughout the field great numbers of flint flakes and cores have been picked up. A late Bronze Age looped-and-socketed axehead was found in 1884 at Ballakaighen. It is said to have been found with the dug-out canoe. Now in the Manx Museum, Accession No. 1954-0802.