Medieval holy well.


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 Manx Archaeological Survey (1968) records a spring, Chibbyrt Baltane, lying about 145m north-west of the keeill site and noted that it was a celebrated 'rag-well' resorted to by rheumatic sufferers, especially around May Day (the festival is Laa'l Boaldyn in Manx). The Survey additionally noted that while Canon Savage recorded an old man's memory of a path formerly leading from the keeill to the well, no such route was visible today.


The Survey described the site as a spring rather than a well, with a rough structure of slabs around the point of outflow, forming a square slab-lined 'sump', and stated that it had previously observed and photographed these features in 1927 but could not subsequently trace them in the dense gorse which has since overrun the entire area (and is present still in 2016).


The directions provided by the Survey would suggest that the well lies at c SC19897040.