A small Wesleyan Methodist chapel which is shown on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. The chapel is now closed and in an overgrown, derelict condition. Also known as Close Rhennie or Lhoughdhoo chapel (grid reference SC357959), it began as a "sod" chapel established in 1815; the 1851 Religious Census recorded a rebuilt chapel dating from 1833 with 100 seats, holding services only on alternate weeks. It closed in 1971 and was subsequently used as a farm garage, entered through a demolished section of its east wall, with the front and sides now overgrown with brambles.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from 'Close y Garey Curragh' by CH Cowley.
No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery were recorded and the grid reference relates to the centre of the curragh for indicative purposes only.
The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
A findspot of a scatter of 'Bann' type Mesolithic flints and a spherical stone, which measured 2 1/2 inches in diameter and may be a slingstone. The finds are from Ballaharra, particularly near 'Bill Sill's Curragh' and were confirmed by B.K. Corlett. They are now held in the Cowley Collection at the Manx Museum.
The site of a post-medieval horse engine. The circular horsewalk is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, located at the southern end of the L-shaped building range at the western side of the complex.
A post-medieval brickworks is recorded as working in this area. The precise location is not clear and the grid reference is for indicative purposes only, between the two farms of Close-a-Kewin and West Craig.
The findspot of a prehistoric flint scatter and a bronze palstave axehead. Information supplied by Mr C.J. Joughin, Mr W.H. Kneale of Kinley's Croft, Mr Thos. Gawne, Smith, Ballavarteen, Bride, and Mr W.R. Cowin, C.P., The Geary.
Undated standing stones, burial mounds, pottery and prehistoric worked flint.
The name Cloughen corra ('odd stones') is recorded on an early 18th century deed. The name was applied to a group of stones whose number has gradually diminished to the single survivor standing today. The grid reference relates to the surviving stone.
Lewis' 'Topographical Dictionary of England' (1831) states that there are five stones present. This is confirmed by reminiscence recorded in the 19th century, though perhaps by the end of the same decade it seems that the number had reduced to four, according to the Archaeological Commissioners' report of 1878 when referring to a time 40 years earlier. Oswald's 'Vestigia' of 1860 likewise records four stones (in an arc), but the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868 only records two.
JR Bruce of the Manx Museum (of whose manuscript notes the above narrative is a summary) notes a photograph in his possession in 1970, taken in 1907, showing two stones present, and that W Cubbon (director of the Manx Museum 1932-40) told him one of the stones was 'destroyed' c.1919. Bruce himself recalls only ever seeing one stone from 1921 onwards.
The two stones recorded by the OS stood at SC2215171641 and SC2215971634, only the latter of which is still present. The visible portion of the surviving stone is just over 2m high, 0.8m broad and 0.7m thick.
Oswald also records 'A few paces eastward from this there are two low tumuli', in commenting on which in 1930 PMC Kermode (director of the Manx Museum 1922-32), states that one 'could still be traced a few years ago'. Kermode goes on to state that 'probably it was from one of these that the Urn came which is said to have been found at the Standing Stones in 1878.' Kermode appears to be referring to the Archaeological Commissioners' report, but Bruce's manuscript narrative describes sherds of an urn as being ploughed up 'within 100yds SE' of the standing stones. The urn has not been identified within the Manx National Heritage collections, and may not survive.
Together, these observations appear to place up to two possible burial mounds and a possible inhumation, cremation, or earth-fast pot a short distance (and certainly within what was then the same field, OS Field no. 0285) east of the standing stones.
Kermode (1930) also records that worked flints have been recovered: this would appear to relate to finds made by F Swinnerton. Additional flints have been found since.
Modern reconfiguration of the surrounding field boundaries and a trackway has significantly changed the landscape context of this site from that in which most of the antiquarian observations were made, whilst also diminishing the extent to which the remains survive as upstanding features, which together makes their interpretation difficult. The arrangement of the standing stones led Bruce to state that there was 'little doubt' that they represented the remains of the forecourt of a chambered Neolithic tomb, whilst other antiquarian observations are united in assuming that earthworks and the discovery of pottery imply the existence of - probably Bronze Age - burial activity. The recovery of worked flints undoubtedly confirms prehistoric activity in the immediate area, perhaps from as early as the later Mesolithic.
Undated standing stone.
The name Cloughen corra ('odd stones') is recorded on an early 18th century deed. The name was applied to a group of stones whose number has gradually diminished to the single survivor standing today. The grid reference relates to the surviving stone.
Lewis' 'Topographical Dictionary of England' (1831) states that there are five stones present. This is confirmed by reminiscence recorded in the 19th century, though perhaps by the end of the same decade it seems that the number had reduced to four, according to the Archaeological Commissioners' report of 1878 when referring to a time 40 years earlier. Oswald's 'Vestigia' of 1860 likewise records four stones (in an arc), but the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868 only records two.
JR Bruce of the Manx Museum (of whose manuscript notes the above narrative is a summary) notes a photograph in his possession in 1970, taken in 1907, showing two stones present, and that W Cubbon (director of the Manx Museum 1932-40) told him one of the stones was 'destroyed' c.1919. Bruce himself recalls only ever seeing one stone from 1921 onwards.
The surviving stone stands at SC2215971634. The visible portion is just over 2m high, 0.8m broad and 0.7m thick.
Modern reconfiguration of the surrounding field boundaries and a trackway has significantly changed the landscape context of this site from that in which most of the antiquarian observations were made, whilst also diminishing the extent to which the remains survive as upstanding features, which together makes their interpretation difficult. The arrangement of the standing stones led Bruce to state that there was 'little doubt' that they represented the remains of the forecourt of a chambered Neolithic tomb.
Site of undated standing stone.
The name Cloughen corra ('odd stones') is recorded on an early 18th century deed. The name was applied to a group of stones whose number has gradually diminished to the single survivor standing today. The grid reference relates to the site of the stone recorded by the Ordnance Survey in 1868 but subsequently destroyed.
Lewis' 'Topographical Dictionary of England' (1831) states that there are five stones present. This is confirmed by reminiscence recorded in the 19th century, though perhaps by the end of the same decade it seems that the number had reduced to four, according to the Archaeological Commissioners' report of 1878 when referring to a time 40 years earlier. Oswald's 'Vestigia' of 1860 likewise records four stones (in an arc), but the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868 only records two.
JR Bruce of the Manx Museum (of whose manuscript notes the above narrative is a summary) notes a photograph in his possession in 1970, taken in 1907, showing two stones present, and that W Cubbon (director of the Manx Museum 1932-40) told him one of the stones was 'destroyed' c.1919. Bruce himself recalls only ever seeing one stone from 1921 onwards.
The site of the stone Cubbon described to Bruce as destroyed must be the second of the two recorded by the OS, at SC2215171641.
Modern reconfiguration of the surrounding field boundaries and a trackway has significantly changed the landscape context of this site from that in which most of the antiquarian observations were made, whilst also diminishing the extent to which the remains survive as upstanding features, which together makes their interpretation difficult. The arrangement of the standing stones led Bruce to state that there was 'little doubt' that they represented the remains of the forecourt of a chambered Neolithic tomb.
Undated burial mounds.
The name Cloughen corra ('odd stones') is recorded on an early 18th century deed. The name was applied to a group of stones whose number has gradually diminished to the single survivor standing today.
Oswald's 'Vestigia' of 1860 records 'A few paces eastward from this (i.e. of the standing stones) there are two low tumuli'. In commenting on Oswald's observation in 1930 PMC Kermode (director of the Manx Museum 1922-32), states that one mound 'could still be traced a few years ago'.
No obvious signs of mounds survive today to the east of the standing stone, in the absence of which the grid reference provided refers to the centre of the former field existing when Oswald noted their presence.
Kermode goes on to state that 'probably it was from one of these that the Urn came which is said to have been found at the Standing Stones in 1878.' Kermode appears to be referring to the Archaeological Commissioners' report, but manuscript notes recorded by JR Bruce of the Manx Museum describe only sherds of an urn as being ploughed up 'within 100yds SE' of the standing stones. The urn has not been identified within the Manx National Heritage collections, and may not survive.
Together, these observations appear to place up to two possible burial mounds and a possible inhumation, cremation, or earth-fast pot a short distance (and certainly within what was then the same field, OS Field no. 0285) east of the standing stones. The assumption made by these antiquarian observers is that the earthworks and the discovery of pottery imply the existence of - probably Bronze Age - burial activity.
Modern reconfiguration of the surrounding field boundaries and a trackway has significantly changed the landscape context of this site from that in which most of the antiquarian observations were made, whilst also diminishing the extent to which the remains survive as upstanding features, which together makes their interpretation difficult.
Prehistoric worked flint.
The name Cloughen corra ('odd stones') is recorded on an early 18th century deed. The name was applied to a group of stones whose number has gradually diminished to the single survivor standing today.
PMC Kermode (director of the Manx Museum 1922-32) recorded in 1930 that worked flints have been recovered: this would appear to relate to finds made by F Swinnerton. Additional flints have been found since. The grid reference relates to the centre of the field existing at the time when worked flint was first collected in the vicinity of the upstanding remains.
Modern reconfiguration of the surrounding field boundaries and a trackway has significantly changed the landscape context of this site from that in which most of the antiquarian observations were made, whilst also diminishing the extent to which the remains survive as upstanding features, which together makes their interpretation difficult. The arrangement of the standing stones has led to the suggestion that they represented the remains of the forecourt of a chambered Neolithic tomb, whilst other antiquarian observations are united in assuming that earthworks and the discovery of pottery imply the existence of - probably Bronze Age - burial activity.
The recovery of worked flints undoubtedly confirms prehistoric activity in the immediate area, perhaps from as early as the later Mesolithic.
Worked flints from the site are in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession nos. 1954-0504 and 1974-0056.
A two-storey house consists of a central cement render/clap board covered brick structure with a stone extension on one side and a single storey stone conversion on the other side. The central portion has an asbestos tile roof, the extension a flat roof and the conversion a slate pitched roof. The windows are of differing proportions in each section. No interior inspection was made. The house is 90% less than 5 years old, with equivalent repair. There would appear to be no reason to list this building for preservation.
This former engine room on Carrs Lane, Tromode, belonged to Clucas' Laundry, a firm that began in a house on Circular Road, Douglas, in 1906 before moving to Tromode in 1912 and becoming a private company in 1922, when it acquired the whole of Tromode Village and Mills; the site had formerly been used for making Moore's sail cloth. Clucas' grew into one of the largest and best-equipped laundries in the United Kingdom, running a substantial brush-making factory alongside it, and was noted as the only laundry company in the British Isles to provide housing for its entire workforce, owning every house in the village its employees lived in. The engine room is a surviving fragment of that industrial operation, now included on the Isle of Man's Registered Buildings list.
The site of a post-medieval lime kiln. It is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map and is also visible on modern aerial photographs. It appears to be a single pot kiln.
The Clypse Course was a 10.79-10.95-mile, 34-turn street circuit through Onchan parish, introduced in 1954 to bring back the Lightweight, Ultra-Lightweight and Sidecar TT races, and used through the 1959 season before those classes returned to the Mountain Course. From the Grandstand it shared Bray Hill, Parkfield Corner and Willaston Corner with the Willaston Circuit, then ran its own loop past Ballacarrooin (the course's high point at 856 ft, OS grid SC 406 827) to rejoin the Mountain Course in reverse at Cronk-ny-Mona, out to Creg-ny-Baa, back down the Onchan-Laxey road to the Manx Arms, up through the Nursery Curves to Signpost Corner, and on to the finish. Carlo Ubbiali and Tarquinio Provini each won four races on the course, MV Agusta won eight of the ten manufacturer's titles contested, and Inge Stoll became the first woman to compete in an Isle of Man TT race here in 1954; Provini set the outright lap record in 1959 at 80.42 mph. No turn-by-turn coordinate list for the course was found in the sources checked; most of its distinctively-named points either duplicate Willaston Circuit or Mountain Course landmarks already covered, or (Ballacarrooin, Nursery Curves, Manx Arms) have no independently sourced coordinate.
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