The site of a medieval holy well. Chibbyr y Skooie was known as a 'Skoij' well, so called in Ireland as the water was supposed to stop vomiting. The well consists of a fairly deep unlined hole in the ground from which water can be heard trickling. It was densely overgrown when recorded. The well was associated with the keeill site at Ballamillgen farm.
The site of an early medieval holy well situated about 50 metres to the east-southeast of the site of a keeill or chapel site at Bellvue. It is known as Chibbyr y Slaint, or Well of Healing.
The site of an early medieval holy well known as Chibbyr Moirrey or Chibbyr y Woirrey, which is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. The site is now occupied by a childrens' playground and no visible trace of the well or of a water course remains. The dedication marks it as a Holy Well although there is now no use or remembrance of it as such.
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.
This holy well is associated with the nearby keeill (PRN 0059). It held an enduring local reputation for the treatment of rheumatism, sufferers of which would leave rags on nearby briars. The site of the spring is not marked on historical or modern maps, and is now lost amongst dense undergrowth.
The Manx Archaeological Survey (1968) recorded that the spring was adjacent to a high hedge-bank, approximately 160 yards north east of the keeill, which would tend to suggest the grid reference given here. The Survey noted that the spring had formerly been accessible and that a stone-lined sump had been created to facilitate the collection of water, but that these features could no longer be found in the undergrowth.
The Survey suggests that the name is derived from the Manx 'Laa'l Boaldyn' (the May festival, Beltane), at which time, despite its pagan associations, the ruined keeill site was also visited.
Chicken Rock (Manx: Carrick ny Kirkey) is a low, largely submerged reef 4.5 km south-west of Spanish Head, marking the southernmost point administered by the Isle of Man. According to a contemporary account reproduced in later retellings, at least 70 shipwrecks and 160 deaths occurred on the island's southern shores between 1822 and 1867 (this specific figure could not be independently confirmed against the Northern Lighthouse Board's own records or Manx Notebook, and should be treated as an unverified period claim rather than an established statistic); in response, the Northern Lighthouse Board's engineers David and Thomas Stevenson built a 44-metre tower directly on the rock, with the final stone laid 6 June 1873 and the light first shown on 1 January 1875, replacing two earlier leading lights on the nearby Calf of Man. The rock is exposed above water for only about five hours a day, making its construction one of the most hazardous lighthouse-building projects of the Victorian era.
Chicken Rock Lighthouse stands on a treacherous reef off the southern tip of the Calf of Man, built after mariners found that fog often obscured the Calf's older lights, making the reef a serious hazard to shipping. Designed by the engineers David and Thomas Stevenson, the 44-metre granite tower was under construction from 1868 to December 1874, cost more than £64,000, and was first lit on 1 January 1875. A serious fire on 23 December 1960 badly damaged its interior and injured one of the three resident keepers, all of whom were rescued by the Port St Mary lifeboat; the light was automated the following year and has been unmanned ever since. It remains an active aid to navigation operated by the Northern Lighthouse Board, flashing white every five seconds with a range of around 18–21 nautical miles, though the tower itself is not open to visitors.
On 23 December 1960 a fire broke out at Chicken Rock Lighthouse, off the Calf of Man, trapping the keepers at the top of the burning tower; the Port St Mary lifeboat crew rescued them in very difficult conditions. The fire caused extensive damage and hastened the lighthouse's automation, completed by 1962; a new light was subsequently established on the Calf of Man itself by 1968, after which Chicken Rock was downgraded to a minor light.
Chilunnin, Bradda West Keeill - a recorded keeill (early medieval chapel) site at Bradda West. No further published descriptive or excavation detail has been located beyond the site's inclusion in the Historic Environment Record.
Christopher David Killip (11 July 1946 - 13 October 2020) was born in Douglas, where his parents ran the Highlander pub, and left school at 16 to work as a beach photographer before moving to London in 1964. He returned repeatedly to document the Island, publishing Isle of Man: A Book about the Manx (1980) with text by critic John Berger, before becoming internationally recognised for In Flagrante (1988), his study of Tyneside's working-class communities, which won him the 1989 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award; he later taught photography at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017.
Christ Church stands on Church Hill in Laxey and was built for, and largely funded by, the Great Laxey Mining Company at a cost of around £950, reflecting the mining company's central role in shaping the village during its Victorian boom years. It was designed by the architect Ewan Christian and was consecrated on 27 May 1856 by the Bishop of Sodor and Man, Lord Auckland. The church remains a prominent landmark on the hillside above the village that grew up around the Laxey mines.
A post-medieval church in Laxey. Manx National Heritage's manuscript archive holds the parish registers of Christ Church, Laxey, with marriage registers beginning in 1856, indicating the church (or its parish) was established by that date.
Christopher Hampton of Kirk Braddan petitioned Bishop Thomas Wilson shortly after the Bishop's arrival on the Isle of Man. Hampton's wife had been convicted of lamb stealing and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude, and he sought the Bishop's licence for a second marriage in consideration of his motherless children. Wilson granted the petition on 26 May, an early demonstration of the pastoral pragmatism that would characterise his episcopacy.
Extracts from Florence of Worcester's medieval chronicle covering early Anglo-Saxon overlordship and the Norman period in Britain. Includes references to the Mevanian (Isle of Man) islands under various rulers, their subjugation by Welsh forces in 1094, and the involvement of Magnus King of Norway in 1098. Presented in both English translation and Latin original, from the Manx Society's Monumenta de Insula Manniae volume.
A genealogical and historical narrative tracing the succession of rulers over the Isle of Man from legendary times through the 16th century, including the conquest by St. Patrick, Norse rule under Orry, Scottish subjugation under Alexander, and the subsequent English lordships held by the Montagues, Scroopes, Percys, and Stanleys. This document establishes the constitutional and dynastic framework preceding the 1765 Revestment.
A comprehensive reference compilation listing all Acts of Parliament that extended to the Isle of Man from 1350 to 2003. Originally compiled by the Attorney General's Chambers and edited by Stephen Holmes in October 2011. It documents the constitutional and legislative framework governing the island, with particular emphasis on post-1765 Revestment legislation affecting customs, excise, foreign affairs, armed forces, and social security.
Church Bends is one of the longer-established named corners on the Billown Circuit, with a racing history stretching back decades. Wikipedia's article on the circuit records three fatal accidents there: Jim Farlow in 1974, Graham Williams in 1983, and John Tawse in 1985, making it one of the course's more consequential sections through the 1970s and 1980s.
No verifiable history was found for this building beyond its identification as Church Cottage in the St Marks village settlement, Ballasalla, close to St Mark's Church.
Site of outbuilding, originally constructed before 1868 (present on Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st edition map of that date).
The structure is still present on early photographs after the construction of the current stone barn, but has since been demolished.
Church Farm as a whole was acquired by the Manx Museum and National Trust in 1988.
Modern outbuilding.
Outbuilding east of farmhouse, originally constructed before 1868 (present on Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of that date).
Church Farm as a whole was acquired by the Manx Museum and National Trust in 1988.
Site of modern outbuilding.
Site of outbuilding, originally constructed before 1868 (present on Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of that date).
The structure appears, on the evidence of old photographs, to have been demolished to allow the construction of the stone barn still present on the site a little to the east.
Church Farm as a whole was acquired by the Manx Museum and National Trust in 1988.
Site of modern outbuilding.
Site of outbuilding, originally constructed before 1868 (present on Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st edition map of that date).
The structure is still present on early photographs after the construction of the current stone barn, but has since been demolished.
Church Farm as a whole was acquired by the Manx Museum and National Trust in 1988.
