Medieval burial ground.


The Manx Archaeological Survey (1918) states that a chapel and burial ground once stood at this location. The Survey notes that the site of the 'ruins and ground whereon the Old Chapel did stand' was sold by the Church in 1708 when the new chapel (St Matthew's Church at SC 38217531, itself demolished in 1898) was built.


It is possible that the cattle market remained as open space because of its earlier use as a graveyard.


These observations tend to place the site in the vicinity of the former Douglas Corporation electricity works, and the presence of lintel graves suggests burial activity dating to the medieval period.