Medieval burial ground.


The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map records 'Site of Chapel & Burial Ground' with the usual symbol locating the site.


The site lies in the grounds of Ballagawne House, which stands 50m to the west.


The Manx Archaeological Survey (1868) records a substantial curved embankment to the east and south of the keeill site would appear to imply the existence of a burial ground enclosure, although no graves have ever been reported within the grounds, despite their intensive use for fruit trees and more recently as a plant nursery. The Survey recorded the bank still standing 0.6m high and up to 3m wide, and surviving for a length of 80m.


Although no graves have been found within the gardens of Ballagawne House, this is in contrast to the land immediately to the north across the highroad. Here, the proposed development in the mid 19th century of a house, on the site now occupied by 'Greenacres', led to preliminary work constructing a gateway and drive, and resulted in the discovery of 'many graves'. The work was consequently abandoned and the site was only developed much later - and with a driveway sited a substantial distance to the east.


The grid reference relates to the notional centre of a burial ground, based on the surviving remnant of the bank, and the reported discoveries across the road at 'Greenacres', rather than the Ordnance Survey symbol shown on the 1868 map.