Medieval pinfold. The parish pinfold for Kirk Lonan stood on the west side of the main highroad. It is annotated as 'Pinfold' on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867-8 at this location. In 1940 the pinfold was recorded as almost square, measuring approximately 12 by 11m, with rendered stone walls of quarried slate standing 2.1m high. The entrance was in the centre of the north (upslope) wall, where the wall was higher still to accommodate a slate lintel above the position of the gate. The pinfold has since been heavily altered as a result of road improvements, the east and south walls being much reduced in height and cut back to widen the road junction. Each parish was responsible for the maintenance and repair of its own pinfold. Their origins are uncertain although an early statute of 1422 confirms that the customary laws relating to their maintenance and use were already well established.

Parish in the south of the Isle of Man, containing Castletown, Ballasalla, Ronaldsway and Rushen Abbey. Kirk Malew occupies much of the low ground around Castletown and the Silverburn. The parish church stands inland from the town and contains memorials to several families prominent in Manx political and social history. The parish register preserves unusually important evidence for the seventeenth century. On 31 August 1654 William Kewish and Robert Callow of Kirk Maughold were executed at Hango Hill for murder and afterwards buried at Malew, in the way down from the church porch. The same register records the execution of William Christian, Illiam Dhone. Christian was shot at Hango Hill on 2 January 1663. The entry states that he died penitently and courageously, prayed earnestly and made a speech before his death. He was buried the next day in the chancel of Kirk Malew. The parish also contained Rushen Abbey at Ballasalla. The abbey, its estates and the Silverburn occupied a substantial part of the landscape between the parish church and Castletown. Ronaldsway and Derbyhaven gave Malew a maritime as well as an agricultural character. The sheltered bay served as one of the principal southern anchorages, while Hango Hill and St Michael's Isle formed part of the defensive approaches to Castletown.

The site of a post-medieval pinfold.  It is located to the west side of the road from Glenvine to the Braaid, between Ballaquinnea and Ballingan. It  is a rectlinear enclosure with walls of sod hedge type, over 2 metres in height.  The walls are partly faced with field stones on the outside, and more recent dry-built facing of quarried slate inside. The entrance has been rebuilt in stone, with a slate lintel against the original sod banks. Each parish was responsible for maintenance and repair of its own pinfold, but their origins are uncertain although a statute of 1422 confirms customary laws already long established by that time.

Parish on the north-east coast of the Isle of Man, in the sheading of Garff with Lonan. The parish takes its name from Maughold, whose legend is given in the earliest of the Manx Society volumes. He was said to have been a captain of robbers in Ireland who was cast ashore on the Island in a small leathern boat, his hands manacled and bolts on his feet, having undertaken the voyage as a penance. Conindrius and Romulus, the bishops sent by St Patrick, received him. He was afterwards elected bishop by the universal suffrage of the Manx nation, and by whom he was consecrated is uncertain. A Manx ballad printed in 1873 records that he came ashore at the Head and built a church there. The churchyard holds some of the best of the Island's carved stones. At the gate stands a large uninscribed pillar known as St Maughold's Cross, on which the three legs are carved, and which was the reputed sanctuary for criminals. During repairs to the old parish church in the 1850s several further crosses and fragments were found built into the west gable and used as lintels in the chancel, and another was taken from the bell turret. The Cambrian Archaeological Association was shown them in August 1865. St Maughold's Well lies on the north-eastern side of Maughold Head, some 500 feet above the sea. It was resorted to on the first Sunday of harvest, and an earlier account attributes a prolific quality to its water, noting that this had faded since the priests who kept the well were discontinued. The parish held thirty-eight quarterlands of Lord's land. It contained the small freehold Barony of the Hough, of about 420 acres, and the barony formerly belonging to the priory of St Bees, north of the Dhoon river, which was exchanged with the Christian family for lands in Cumberland. The parish register begins in 1611, the earliest date of any in the Island after Malew. Ramsey lies within the parish and was listed separately as Ramsey Chapel. A fair was held at Maughold in August.

The Kirk Maughold pinfold stands on the old road from Ramsey on the east side of North Barrule. It is an enclosure which measures about 13 square metres, defined by drystone walling of mountain type with no mortar used. The walls are 1.5 metres high and in good repair. The entrance is in the centre of the eastern wall but it has no lintel stone. Each parish was responsible for the maintenance and repair of its own pinfold, but their origins are uncertain although a statute of 1422 confirms customary laws were already long established by that time.

Village and parish on the west coast of the Isle of Man, in Michael Sheading. Kirk Michael was the ecclesiastical centre of the parish and lay close to Bishopscourt, the traditional residence of the Bishops of Sodor and Man. An early description records that Bishop Simon died at Kirk Michael in 1247 and associated the district with the bishop's palace. The churchyard became particularly noted for its carved stones. The large Joalf Cross at Kirk Michael was repeatedly used by nineteenth-century antiquaries in studies of Manx runic ornament. Its decoration was compared with the Oter Cross at Braddan and other Scandinavian monuments on the Island. Runic inscriptions from Kirk Michael also supplied evidence for personal names and the Norse language in Mann. The crosses were drawn, rubbed and compared with monuments elsewhere in the British Isles and Scandinavia as antiquarian interest in the Manx stones developed during the nineteenth century. The parish extended from the western coast towards the central hills. Bishopscourt lay within it, and the Bishop's Well in the glen was also known as the Wishing Well. Gill connected it with a well mentioned in a 1677 perambulation of the Michael and Ballaugh parish boundary. Kirk Michael was a local fair centre. Robertson's list records two fairs there in October.

A piece of a sandstone slab which measures 86cm high x 820cm maximum width x 16.5cmh minimum width and 15.8cm thick.  It appears that the date 1681 is carved on it, which may be the original date and suggests that it could have been a post-medieval grave slab or a reused medieval slab.

This small fragment was found in the churchyard in about 1840. The left edge is decorated with a damaged bead moulding. The upper part of the fragment is filled with double-banded plaitwork, while the lower end of the fragment bears the outline of the head and neck of a dragon, all highly reminiscent of Manx Cross 117. It is displayed at Kirk Michael church. See also Manx Cross 116.

This broken slab was recovered from the wall of the churchyard. The surviving part comprises the lower part of the cross shaft and the undecorated portion of the slab shaped for insertion into a socket stone. On one face the shaft is decorated with ring-chain pattern with twisted interlace to either side. The other face has twist-and-ring on the shaft, with key pattern to the right and the very fragmentary remains of inscription to the left, translated as '...this (cros)s in mem(ory of)..' See also Manx Cross 102.

This broken shaft of a cross-slab was recognised in 1899: it had been turned upside down, re-shaped and carved with a skull and cross-bones in 1699 and used as a gravestone. The face bearing the skull and cross-bones also shows the remains of tendril pattern in the panel to the right of the shaft, which bears faint traces of the double twist and ring. The other face preserves remnants of a twist and ring pattern in the panel to the left of the cross shaft. The surviving edge preserves a fragment of a runic inscription translated as, '...(carv)ed runes?.' It is displayed at Kirk Michael church. See also Manx Cross 110.

The Dragon Cross. A fine piece, each face bearing a cross set on a circle. The slab is rounded at the top, and tapers towards the foot to fit into a socket; the spaces between the limbs are pierced. Both crosses have an expanding shaft, and a ring decorated with plait-work. Regular plaits break into looser interlacing lower on the shaft. The panels to either side are filled with interlace binding dragon figures with gaping jaws, pear-shaped eyes and long tails. This cross slab was first recorded in 1841 near the old church, and it is therefore tempting to assume that it came to light as a result of the demolition of the previous parish church. It dates to around AD1030. The slab is damaged but was originally round-headed and pierced between the limbs. It tapers towards its foot, and the sculpture stops short to allow for its insertion into a socket. Each face has a central wheel-headed cross, decorated with plaits-of-seven which break into looser interlace towards the foot of the shaft. On both faces, the panels either side of the cross shaft each bear a representation of a dragon, bound by interlace, facing the shaft. The dragon's head, with open mouth, fearsome teeth and pear-shaped eye, can be seen immediately beneath the ring supporting the arm of the cross. The pear-shaped eye is one of the classic elements of the Ringerike style, and here makes a very rare appearance on a Manx cross. A similar animal appears on a fragment of a gold ring found near Greeba. The remaining decoration is a mixture of Jellinge and Mammen styles, suggesting that this stone stands at the crossover between these art-styles. The carving bears some similarity to that on Manx Cross 122. It is displayed at Kirk Michael church. See also Manx Cross 117.

A fragment of a slate cross-slab with carved interlace patterning, found loose in 1939 at the lychgate. It measures 15.2cm x 9.5cm x 3.8cm and is stored by Manx National Heritage. See also Manx Cross 178.

This broken slab was recovered from the wall of the churchyard. The surviving part comprises the lower part of the cross shaft and the undecorated portion of the slab shaped for insertion into a socket stone. On one face the shaft is decorated with ring-chain pattern with twisted interlace to either side. The other face has twist-and-ring on the shaft, with key pattern to the right and the very fragmentary remains of inscription to the left, translated as '...this (cros)s in mem(ory of)..'

This broken shaft of a cross-slab was recognised in 1899: it had been turned upside down, re-shaped and carved with a skull and cross-bones in 1699 and used as a gravestone. The face bearing the skull and cross-bones also shows the remains of tendril pattern in the panel to the right of the shaft, which bears faint traces of the double twist and ring. The other face preserves remnants of a twist and ring pattern in the panel to the left of the cross shaft. The surviving edge preserves a fragment of a runic inscription translated as, '...(carv)ed runes?'

This small fragment was found in the churchyard in about 1840. The left edge is decorated with a damaged bead moulding. The upper part of the fragment is filled with double-banded plaitwork, while the lower end of the fragment bears the outline of the head and neck of a dragon, all highly reminiscent of Manx Cross 117.

This flake from the face of a slab was found in a garden adjoining the churchyard to the north in 1911. It shows part of the interlace decorating the shaft of a cross; in the panel to the right is a robed female figure with long braided hair, holding in her hand a four-pronged spear or staff. Below her is a tethered horse, on whose back is either a saddle or a pack. It is tempting to interpret the woman as Hyndla, the wise-woman, and the horse as Grani bearing Sigurd's treasure, but both may have meanings unassociated with Norse mythology. The edge carries an inscription, but only the broken tops of a few runes now remain, which have been translated as, '...in memory of Mu...'

This small fragment was found loose in the churchyard lychgate, which formerly served as the parish cross shelter, in 1939. It bears a well-executed interlace of double band, and a pelleted band with borders.

Fullers Earth was dug from the upper part of Glen Wyllin valley in the late 19th century, with the workings closed before the First World War. They were restarted by a Mr Alfred E. Grundy from Wigan.  The Glen Wyllin Fuller's Earth Company Limited is mentioned in the London Gazette of 18 July 1933.

A Viking spearhead, thought to indicate a furnished Viking Age burial, was  'found when digging a grave in Michael Churchyard, April '95' (ie 1895), according to a label once attached to it.  Shetelig gives the date as April 1885. The precise location of the grave is not known and the grid reference provided marks the approximate centre of the graveyard.  The slender iron socketed spear-head belongs to Jan Petersen type K.  Its surface is much damaged and the base of the socket, edges and point of the blade are all missing. The artefact forms part of the national collections and bears the accession number 1954-3743.

The site of the 19th century Kirk Michael Lead Mine complex.   Extensive remains of mining activity survive here, including offices at SC33798904, a wheelcase at SC33828907, a shaft at SC33958887 and levels at SC33968882 and SC33978894.  The workings are surrounded by quite extensive spoil heaps.

Medieval pinfold. The parish pinfold for Kirk Michael stood in Glen Wyllin on the inland side of the main road between Peel and Kirk Michael. It is shown and annotated on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869, adjacent to the garden of a property now known as Glen Wyllin House, and was centred at the grid reference provided. In 1940 the pinfold was described as 27 feet square, and located 20 feet below the level of the main road, at the foot of the embankment on which the highway is supported. Its walls were of stone and the entrance was located at the south end of the east wall (this would have been at approximately SC3153490205). There was no lintel, and the access was by way of a steep path. The north and east walls have been significantly compromised by improvements to the adjacent road junction, but the line of the west and south walls is still apparent. Each parish was responsible for the maintenance and repair of its own pinfold. Their origins are uncertain although an early statute of 1422 confirms that the customary laws relating to their maintenance and use were already well established.

A water pump at the remains of the 19th century Kirk Michael Lead Mine complex.

Kirk Patrick pinfold is located south of the village near Shenvalla. It is a circular, stone-walled enclosure, measuring approximately 12 metres in diameter with walls almost 2 metres high. The walls are built in courses of loose slate withn an entrance facing west. Mortar has been used for outside facing and around the stonework at the entrance. There are no coping or lintel stones.  Historically, each parish was responsible for the maintenance and repair of its own pinfold, but their origins are uncertain. A statute of 1422 confirms that they existed under customary laws which were already long established by the 15th century.

The site of an early medieval 'lintel grave' cemetery was discovered in March 1976 by Mr I. Parker, Glentraugh Farm who found a slate-lined grave containing a skull during ploughing. An emergency excavation undertaken by Dr. Larch S. Garrard uncovered a total of 18 graves and it is probable that there are more in the area. The site of 'stone cists' shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map are probably part of the same cemetery. The grave pits had been cut into the slate rock and lined with slate slabs. After burial the graves were covered with slate 'lintels'. Fifteen graves produced skeletal remains but there were no grave goods or other means of dating the site

The site of the post-medieval Kirk Santon pinfold, which is found alongside an old trackway, west of Ballavar Farm.  The pinfold is roughly rectangular in plan and measures 13.5 metres in length and up to 10 metres in width.  It is defined by sod hedge walling with mortared masonry around its entrance in the centre of the south wall. There are lintel stones on the walls.  Each parish was responsible for the maintenance and repair of its own pinfold, but their origins are uncertain although a statute of 1422 confirms relevant laws were already long established by that time.