Modern brickworks.


Although Bagnio House has been identified by means of an inventory of Castle Rushen made in 1694 as the site of a 17th century brick kiln owned by the Lord of Man, the persistence long after of a field name at Red Gap farm suggests that brickmaking could have continued for some time after this period.


The field was still known in the 1820s as 'the Brickfield', implying that here the clay was dug for brickmaking. The farmstead lay at the grid reference provided, some 600m WNW of Bagnio House. The site has been altered by road-widening.