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Cabbal Dreem Ruy

Archaeology

Medieval chapel and burial ground. The name means the 'chapel of the red ridge'. The structure is orientated WNW-ESE. In 1885 the chapel was described as measuring 5.8 by 3.1m internally, with walls 1.8m high, and a doorway towards the east end of the 'south' wall. In the 1920s and 1930s the structure was reduced almost to foundation level and rebuilt. Its dry stone walls are now 1.3m high internally, 0.5m externally and are 1m thick. There is an entrance 0.5m wide in the SW wall but no visible trace of an altar.


A mound once observed surrounding the chapel is now difficult to discern on the ground, unless represented by the line of the present boundary fence which was erected in 1937, but a cropmark suggesting an oval enclosure was apparent on aerial photography current in 2009. Finds include Edward I silver coins recovered from near the base of a wall, a hollowed boulder, a perforated slate disc, and a perforated slate slab.

Ballayelse

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Parish: Arbory
  • Sheading: Rushen
  • Grid Ref: SC2508873880

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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