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Ballaglonney Keeill

Archaeology

Medieval architectural fragment / worked stone.


The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map of 1868 records 'Site of Chapel & Burial Ground' with a marker locating the site at SC2000270304. The site lies within a field amalgamated from several smaller plots, two of which (OS Plots 0494 and 0497) were formerly known as Magher y Cabbal (field of the chapel).


Despite the OS' description, substantial remains were still apparent when the Archaeological Commissioners visited in 1878, recording a mass of stone and identifying a carved stone cross (Manx Cross 66) and a hollowed stone.


The latter was thought perhaps to have been a socket stone from the keeill doorway. By 1886, when Canon Savage visited the site and interviewed the owner, the chapel had been largely cleared. Savage noted the stone at the time but it is now lost.

Ballaglonney, Magher y Cabbal, Bradda

Connections

Book Chapters

  • Grid Ref: SC2000270304

Sources

  • Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record
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