Several lintel graves with human remains were found in 1894 when a drain was being cut near the summit of the steep slope, on the south side of the stream about 640 metres above the highroad where it crosses Glen Wyllin. The discovery was made within the field numbered 934 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. No foundations or trace of walls of an associated chapel or keeill have been found.
It is thought that there is a early medieval chapel or keeill site here, within the field numbered 934 on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. Several lintel graves with human remains were found in 1894 when a drain was cut near the summit of the steep slope, on the south side of the stream about 640 metres above the highroad where it crosses Glen Wyllin. No foundations or trace of walls of such a keeill were found.
The ruins of a former corn mill building recorded at Cooilslieu farm. The 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map shows a dam and millpond to the east of the farm buildings.
Modern watermill and associated water management.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The mill complex includes the mill itself, orientated E-W, and a grain store which extends from the north side of the mill at the west end. A small annexe on the east gable probably served as a kiln; a miller's house stood just to the NE.
The mill was served by a leat which extends 600m upstream to a substantial weir which draws water from the River Neb. The leat is guarded by a sluice.
The buildings survive intact, except for the miller's house, which was demolished c.2000.
Modern watermill.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The mill itself is orientated east-west. A grain store extends from the north side of the mill at the west end. A small annexe on the east gable probably served as a kiln.
The mill was served by a leat drawing water from the River Neb.
The building survives intact.
Modern mill grain store.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The grain store extends from the north side of the mill at the west end, and is centred at the grid reference provided.
The building survives and is used as an office.
Modern corn drying kiln.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings, together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The small annexe on the east gable of the mill probably served as a corn drying kiln.
The building survives intact.
Modern miller's house (site of).
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
The miller's house is shown just to the north-east of the mill. It was demolished c. 2000, but the other buildings survive.
Modern mill leat.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a complex of buildings together with the annotation, 'Flour Mill'.
A long leat, some 600m in length, extends upstream to a substantial weir which draws water from the River Neb. The leat is guarded by a sluice, to which the grid reference relates.
The leat survives for almost all of its length, but has been diverted into the River Neb some 50m upstream of the mill, where the outfall is clearly visible.
A trade journal for tobacco manufacturers, dealers, and smokers. This issue contains an article on tobacco and narcotics in Ottoman and Islamic Asia (translated from Arminius Vámbéry's 'Sittenbilder aus dem Morgenlande'), covering Turkish smoking customs, pipe culture, regional tobacco varieties (Latakia, Samsun, Roumelian), and the social role of tobacco in Ottoman society. Also includes a review of Henry Havard's 'Picturesque Holland' with references to Dutch smoking customs and pipe culture.
A commercial periodical devoted to tobacco manufacture, dealing, and smoking. The March 1877 issue (No. 84, Vol. II) contains articles on tobacco and narcotics in Ottoman Asia by travel writer Arminius Vámbéry, smoking customs among Turkish and Arab populations, descriptions of regional tobacco varieties (Latakia, Samsun, Jendische Bardar), and the cultural importance of pipes in Ottoman society. Includes promotional content for Cope Brothers & Co. tobacco products.
The Isle of Man's traditional copper currency, valued at 14 pence to the shilling (higher than British currency), was being profitably exported to Britain; to curb this, Tynwald passed an act in March 1840 assimilating Manx copper to British currency at 12 pence per shilling. When the change took effect on 26 September 1840, islanders who felt defrauded rioted across the island, smashing windows of shops, banks and even a chapel in Douglas; Peel suffered the worst damage, with rioting lasting several weeks and residents later required to pay assessment fees covering roughly £58 of destruction.
A bilingual (English/Latin) transcription of a 1426 diplomatic agreement between representatives of King Eric of Norway and King James I of Scotland, concerning territorial matters relating to the Hebrides and the Isle of Man. The document references earlier agreements between Magnus IV and Alexander III (undated), and between Haco V and Robert I (1312). Relevant to understanding pre-Revestment Manx sovereignty and the historical backdrop of competing claims to the island.
Manx garrison family who served in the Lord of Mann's military establishment. Their displacement after Revestment is part of the broader story of Manx institutional destruction.
This four storey building complex has two dominant adjacent structures each with an hipped slate roof fronting onto the main delivery yard and storage warehouse. The sitting is such that it completely fills the depression east of the stream in Laxey Glen.
The exposed stonework of both building facades is articulated by shallow pilaster columns running the full height of the building and linked by flattened curved arches below eaves level. The windows are all arranged regularly between these columns and the window head treatment echoes the flattened arch expression. The hipped roof of the layer of the two structures does not extend over the last two bays toward the stream which are also cut through by a large driveway at the ground floor. The roof is also punctuated by large revolving ventilators.
The rear of the structures are completely covered with a system of corrugated panels of unflattering appearance. No internal inspection was made. The front facade appears in good repair. The building has significance as a large Victorian industrial structure of well disciplined proportions and robust construction given over 190 years of very heavy use. However only the front facade is of particular merit and perhaps fortunately is also the only part of the building which can be seen from almost any angle.
Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king-bishop of Cashel, compiled a glossary around the year 900. It is the earliest dictionary in any non-classical European language. In it, Cormac describes Manannán as "a celebrated merchant who was in the Isle of Man. He was the best pilot that was in the west of Europe. He used to know by studying the heavens the period which would be fine weather and the bad weather, and when each of these two times would change."
A weather forecaster. The god of the sea, the ruler of the Otherworld, the one who could make a single man look like a thousand — reduced to a merchant with a knack for reading clouds.
This is what scholars call euhemerisation: taking a divine figure and rewriting him as a historical person. Christian scribes did it routinely. They could not have pagan gods in their manuscripts, so the gods became kings, or merchants, or clever men who could read the sky. The storms became weather forecasting. The Otherworld became a trade route. Moore, writing in 1891, traces the process clearly: as early as the ninth and tenth centuries Manannán "had suffered the change known as euhemerisation, from an immortal he had become a mortal." Yet the Voyage of Bran, written a century before Cormac, has Manannán riding a chariot across the ocean and seeing flowery plains where mortals see waves. The earlier text is more mythological, not less. The reduction came afterwards, deliberately. Someone decided to make the god smaller.
It did not work. The fog still comes in from the south. The rushes still go up the hill. The fishermen of Peel and Port St Mary, for centuries, went to sea with an understanding that the sea belonged to someone, and you did not go out on it without acknowledgement.
This is an inaccessible site which was planned by L.S.Garrad. It consists of a flat area, measuring 41.5 metres by 23.5 metres, bounded by a bank. The site is marked on the 25 inch map. The site is traditionally said to have been a place of refuge from attacks by Danish raiders, but it may be an animal pound.
Rising flour and bread prices, after the Isle of Man was brought under English Corn Law restrictions on foreign grain imports, sparked a riot at Peel on 1 October 1821 in which crowds broke flour-dealers' windows and forced sales at reduced rates; a similar riot followed in Douglas on 4 October, led by a man from Peel dressed in women's clothing, with ringleaders jailed in Castle Rushen. The House of Keys responded by examining parish grain supplies and imposing an embargo on grain exports; the Duke of Atholl arrived on 31 October, secured a Tynwald petition to restore free trade in foreign grain, and pardoned the rioters, restoring calm by late November.
