Parish cemetery.  The Manx parishes were created during the twelfth century and there is no evidence to suggest that the centre of Rushen parish has moved since that time.


Ordnance Survey mapping prepared in 1867 shows the graveyard defined to south and east by the adjacent highway, with a recorded area of just less that 0.6 acres.  The land immediately to the west is occupied by the vicarage and its grounds, and the otherwise curvilinear boundary of the graveyard is sharply defined here by a straighter wall running roughly north-south. 


The old burial ground has since been greatly extended to the west and south-west during the 20th century as a consequence of the substantial expansion of the nearby settlements of Port Erin and Port St Mary.


The grid reference provided reflects the approximate centre of the historical graveyard as depicted by the OS in 1867.