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Cronk ny Keeill Bouyr
Archaeology
The site of a Bronze Age barrow, which survives as a ditchless, gorse and fern covered bowl barrow with diameter of 12.0 metres and height of 1.4 metres. It has several stones, some of them quartz, exposed on the mound. A second barrow lies 50 metres to the northeast (PRN 0532.00). The barrow is shown as a Tumulus on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
Cronk ny Keeill Bouyr means the Mound of Keeill Bouyr (Mound of the Chapel of the Deaf).
Skyhill
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Book Chapters
- Parish: Lezayre
- Sheading: Ayre
- Grid Ref: SC4231093280
Sources
- Isle of Man Heritage Environment Record