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Ballameanagh Keeill
Archaeology
A reported keeill site at Ballameanagh near Foxdale, which would have been in use in the period AD500 to AD1000. It is thought that the remains of the keeill were removed during the early 1860s. It was located in the field numbered 2995 on the 1869 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map.
An intact skeleton was apparently found in a stone coffin in the burial ground adjoining the keeill, but no trace of a chapel or burial ground now survives. The field is was known as 'Chapel Field' and a Mrs Lace and others remembered the walls standing and several headstones of graves around. The stones are said to have been used for buildings on nearby Kionslieu farm.
Ballameanagh, Foxdale, Chapel Field
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- Parish: Patrick
- Sheading: Glenfaba
- Grid Ref: SC2848078580
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record