Post medieval brickworks.


The first recorded brickworks on the Isle of Man was operated in Castletown from 1692, although its precise location is unknown. An inventory from Castle Rushen, prepared in 1694, implies that its location was somewhere near 'the Bagnio'.


This property is now known as Bagnio House in Arbory Street, in the rear garden of which large numbers of waste bricks have been found.


A field on Red Gap farm, a short distance outside Castletown, was still in the 1820s known as 'the Brickfield', implying that here the clay was dug for brickmaking.