Medieval lintel graves.


The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867 shows the site of a chapel and burial ground at this location, formerly named Killkellan, together with the annotation, 'Site of Chapel & Burial Ground'. The OS places a marker within a small enclosure to the east of the road, which is defined by a curvilinear field boundary.


Dr J Bradbury (1894) describes the discovery at the time he was writing, of a 'series of graves', during construction of the Manx Electric Railway. All were lintel graves, and some 46 of them were opened; they were found to contain human skeletons, many of which crumbled on exposure. Bradbury describes the graves as being arranged in rows, but gathered into groups of three. The graves were closely spaced, but each group was separated from the next by about 3m.


The location of the discovery is not clear from Bradbury's description, but the arrangement would imply that the graves covered an extensive area along the line of the railway.