Historic estate in Kirk Patrick, west of Peel.

Robertson’s survey of the principal estates of Kirk Patrick listed Knockaloe among properties valued at between about £100 and £300 a year and upwards. In 1798 he identified James Quirk as proprietor of Knockaloe and captain of the parish.

James Quirk also appears in Robertson’s list of members of the House of Keys. He entered the Keys in 1795 and was then described as “James Quirk, Esq.; Knockaloe.”

The estate was associated earlier with the Radcliffe family. Robertson’s description of Kirk German church recorded an inscription to Captain Sylvester Radcliffe of Knockaloe, buried on 30 December 1731 aged seventy-eight. The Kirk Patrick register later recorded Captain Charles Radcliffe of Knockaloe, buried in March 1783 aged fifty-six.

The name also appears in a smaller neighbouring property, which Robertson rendered as Knockaloe and glossed as “little”, belonging to Mr Corrin.

In the twentieth century Knockaloe became the site of the large First World War civilian internment camp. The present evidence pack points to several published memoirs dealing with internment there, including Time Stood Still by P. Cohen-Portheim and Round the World to Freedom by P. Stoffa, but those references are bibliographical rather than substantive extracts. A fuller camp description should therefore be based on a targeted evidence pass rather than these index entries alone.