Kenaa (Kennaa) is a farm and locality near St Johns in the parish of German, in the central Isle of Man. It gave his name to Edward Callister of Kenaa.
The site of a Bronze Age cairn and burial cist. It survives as a partially robbed-out, stony mound, measuring up to 20 metres in diameter and up to 1.5 metres high. The ring is about 6 metres thick and has some quartz boulders on its outside face. A collapsed burial cist is exposed within the hollow at the centre of the mound, across which a thin slab still acts as a cap. The monument is fenced off from the rest of the field to protect the site.
Modern watermill (site of) and associated water management.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'T. Mill', denoting a threshing mill.
The mill was served by a leat which extends 75m from a 0.2 acre millpond, which stores water from a small stream draining the high ground to the south. A tail race leads the water to the complex of channels which drain the Central Valley curragh westwards towards the River Neb.
The structure is now demolished, though the millpond still exists as a water feature.
Modern watermill (site of).
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'T. Mill', denoting a threshing mill.
The mill was served by a leat and a millpond which still survive. A tail race leads the water away to the Central Valley curragh.
The mill is now demolished.
Modern millpond.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a building together with the annotation, 'T. Mill', denoting a threshing mill.
A 0.2 acre millpond stored water for the mill by means of a dam across a small stream draining the high ground to the south. A leat connected the pond to the mill.
The millpond still exists as a water feature, and is centred at the grid reference provided.
Modern mill leat.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a building together with the annotation, 'T. Mill', denoting a threshing mill.
A 75m leat connects the millpond to the site of the mill. The grid reference relates to a point midway along its course for indicative purposes.
The leat and the millpond still exist, though the mill has been demolished.
Modern mill tail race.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a building together with the annotation, 'T. Mill', denoting a threshing mill.
A 120m tail race connects the mill to a complex of field ditches leading to the Central Valley curragh to the north. The grid reference relates to a point midway along its length, for indicative purposes.
The tail race still exists, though the mill has been demolished.
Kentraugh is an estate in the parish of Rushen in the south of the Isle of Man. It was the seat of William Qualtrough, one of the four men specifically exempted from the Act of General Pardon of 1660 alongside William Christian (Illiam Dhone), and the estate features in Lib Scacc records relating to the Dhone rebellion.
Modern bone and saw mill.
The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map of 1868 records a 'Bone & Saw Mill' at this location. The mill was waterpowered, via a leat off the Colby River.
The structure is still standing and is owned by the Department of Infrastructure.
A number of iron bolts were discovered within gravel deposits interpreted as a storm beach in 1967 at Kentraugh, close to the mouth of the stream.
It has been suggested that they may be nails or rivets from a viking ship, and as such may represent the remains of a Viking burial.
Late Medieval and Modern watermill and associated water management.
A mill at Kentraugh is recorded in the 1511 manorial roll. The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map of 1868 shows a corn mill at this location. A millpond is also shown immediately to the east. The mill leat is shown extending for just over 500m upstream, whilst the tail race rejoins the Colby river 200m downstream.
The mill still stands and the mill equipment is preserved. The millpond is now filled in. The leat and tail race are still traceable throughout their length.
Modern watermill.
The 1511 manorial roll records a mill at Kentraugh. The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map of 1868 shows a corn mill at this location.
The mill still stands and the mill equipment is preserved.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 large-scale mapping published in 1870 shows a rectangular enclosure lined with bushes in one of the fields on the eastern edge of the Kentraugh estate. The enclosure was used to dry and bleach the domestic linen from the house after laundering (rather than in the course of textile manufacture).
The enclosure has been ploughed out but is still visible as a crop mark, measuring approximately 60 by 25m.
Modern watermill and associated water management.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868 shows a flour mill at this location, together with a leat extending 190m upstream to the Colby river. The mill is sited close to the riverbank and the tail race is shown extending for just a few metres until it rejoins the river.
The mill is still standing, and the leat is fully traceable.
Modern watermill.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868 shows a flour mill at this location, close to the riverbank.
The mill is still standing.
Modern watermill and associated water management.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868 shows a flour mill, fed by a leat extending 190m upstream to the Colby river.
The leat is fully traceable, and the grid reference is located at the take-off point from the Colby river.
Modern ice house.
The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map of 1868 records an ice house at this location.
The ice house was built to store ice for use at Kentraugh, the estate owned by the prominent Gawne family since the 1820s.
The structure is still standing.
Modern millpond.
The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map of 1868 records a corn mill at Kentraugh, and the millpond is shown immediately to the east. The mill leat is shown extending for just over 500m upstream, whilst the tail race rejoins the Colby river 200m downstream. The lower reaches of the leat and the southern side of the millpond are retained by substantial embankments and a dam.
The millpond is now filled in. The leat and tail race are still traceable throughout their length.
Modern chapel.
The Primitive Methodist chapel at Kentraugh is marked on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping of 1868.
The building was loaned for use as a chapel by the occupant of Kentraugh mill, and its earlier history is obscure.
The old chapel was superceded by the construction of a purpose-built structure further to the north along the Croit e Caley road in 1881.
