Central parish of the Isle of Man, lying between Douglas and Peel.

Marown formed one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Island. In the eighteenth century it belonged to Middle Sheading, but the Common Law Courts Act of 1796 altered the arrangement and placed German, Patrick and Marown together in the Sheading of Glanfaba.

The parish contained a number of substantial farms and estates. Robertson’s survey listed Ballakilly, the Gharth, Ballahutchin, Ballaquiney Moar, Ballaquiney Beg, Ballanicholas, Corvalley and Ballacallin among the principal properties. Ballakilly was then associated with the Rev. Thomas Christian.

Thomas Christian was also responsible for one of the earliest substantial works printed in Manx. Robertson recorded Paradise Lost translated into Manx by the Rev. Thomas Christian of Ballakilly, Kirk Marown, probably published in Douglas in the 1790s.

Marown had its own fair in February. Robertson’s parish-register summary recorded twenty-four baptisms and eleven burials in 1792, twenty-nine baptisms and twelve burials in 1793, and similar totals during the following years, although marriages were omitted from the return.

The parish lay across the central route between Douglas, St John’s and Peel. Its position also brought it into the landscape of St Trinian’s at Greeba, where the ruined chapel became attached to one of the best-known Buggane traditions on the Island.