Official letter from the Treasury to the Duke of Atholl dated 25 July 1764, offering to negotiate the purchase of his rights in the Isle of Man. The letter cites the powers granted under 12 Geo. I, references House of Commons concern about smuggling, and requests Atholl's proposal regarding the sale of his property and rights in the island. Signed by George Grenville, John Turner, and James Harris.

Official letter from the Lords of the Treasury (Grenville, Turner, Hunter, North) to the Duke of Atholl requesting detailed financial information about Isle of Man revenues and property rights as a precondition for negotiating its purchase. The letter addresses the Duke's claim inability to price the island and insists on a full accounting of customs duties, rental income, and trading conditions before Parliament can authorize terms of purchase.

Official letter from the British Treasury to the Duke of Atholl proposing negotiations for the Crown's purchase of Isle of Man or its sovereign rights. The letter cites Parliamentary concern over smuggling and illicit trade, references the authority granted under the 12th of George I, and requests Atholl's proposal for sale terms. This is a pivotal foundational document in the Revestment negotiations.

Official letter from the British Lords of the Treasury (Grenville, Turner, Hunter, North) to the Duke of Atholl requesting detailed financial and revenue information about the Isle of Man as a prerequisite to negotiating its purchase. The letter references Parliamentary powers and anticipates parliamentary consideration of the island's constitution, trade, and smuggling activities.

Official letter from the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to the Duke of Atholl, requesting his proposals for the sale of the Isle of Man to the Crown. The letter cites widespread smuggling and revenue fraud as the justification, and notes that both the Irish Revenue Board and English Customs Board believe the island cannot be effectively controlled while in private hands.

Official letter from Treasury officials J West and Samuel Martin to the Duke of Atholl, requesting negotiations for the Crown purchase of the Isle of Man. The letter cites widespread revenue fraud caused by illicit trade to/from the Island and states that the Boards of Revenue (Ireland) and Customs (England) believe effective remedy requires Crown ownership. This is a key early document in the chain leading to the 1765 Revestment.

The territorial lordship through which successive rulers held and governed the Isle of Man under the English Crown. The surviving grants define the Lordship in unusually extensive terms. The patent of 1609 recited a grant of the “Isle, Castle, Peel, and Lordship of Mann” together with its rights, members and appurtenances. It also included royalties, regalities, franchises, liberties, ports, courts, wardships, marriages, escheats, forfeitures, wrecks, mines, fisheries, fairs, markets and other revenues and jurisdictions. The same patent dealt separately with former monastic and ecclesiastical property, including lands and revenues associated with Rushen, Douglas and other religious houses and rectories. The grant therefore embraced both territorial possession and a wide range of governmental and fiscal rights. From 1405 the Stanley family held Mann, first as kings and later as Lords of Mann. The title passed through the Earls of Derby and, through inheritance, to the Dukes of Atholl. The constitutional structure beneath the Lord continued to include a Governor, Council, Deemsters and Keys. The 1792 Commissioners described the Lords Proprietors as deriving their authority from the grants and exercising sovereign control of government subject to restrictions introduced over time. Manx legislation was enacted through concurrence between the Lord Proprietor, the Governor and Council, and the Keys. The Crown’s purchase in 1765 transferred the sovereign and customs rights then held by the Duke and Duchess of Atholl. Other proprietary interests remained with the family until later settlements, so the transfer did not amount to a single extinction of every Atholl right in Mann.

The site of an early medieval chapel or keeill and burial ground thought to date to the period A.D. 500-1000. There have been no visible remains of a keeill within living memory. During a visit in 1898 by the IoM Natural History & Antiquarian Society it was reported that graves had been found on the site and that stones had been removed from it for use in the construction of a nearby stable in 1825.   The site occupied the top of a low rise in a meadow when visited by J.R. Bruce in 1963-4. The burial ground, about 25 metres long on its longer axis, formed a slightly raised area of which the border is more evident on the north side. The site consists of the grass-covered, flat-topped summit of a low hill which falls within a paddock associated with a private house. The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 mapping of 1867 shows a subcircular embanked enclosure at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Chapel & Burial Ground (Site of)'.  The beginnings of a second embanked enclosure are shown on the same survey immediately to the northeast but are cut by a modern roadway and do not reappear on the other side of the road. Further graves have been reportedly found elsewhere within the grounds of the property: these include several burials close to the house, approximately 150m from the enclosure. Traces of the burial ground were reportedly seen in 1898 and some bones found. Lintel graves have been noted, including one found to the east-southeast of the keeill site in 1954 and examined by B.R.S. Megaw and A.M. Cubbon of Manx Museum. Several reminiscences collected in the mid-20th century amongst local residents suggested, by way of the name Keeill Woirrey, that the chapel had been dedicated to St Mary. No separate corroboration of this oral tradition has been identified: it should be noted that the chapel just 400m to the south-southwest (PRN 0032) shares the same dedication.

The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 mapping of 1867 shows a subcircular embanked enclosure annotated as 'Chapel & Burial Ground (Site of)'.  The beginnings of a second embanked enclosure are shown on the same survey immediately to the northeast, but are cut by a modern roadway and do not reappear on the other side of the road. This was used as a place of execution from the late 17th until the early 19th century.

The site of an early medieval chapel or keeill and burial ground thought to date to the period A.D. 500-1000, as well as a post-medieval execution site. There have been no visible remains of a keeill within living memory. During a visit in 1898 by the IoM Natural History & Antiquarian Society it was reported that graves had been found on the site and that stones had been removed from it for use in the construction of a nearby stable in 1825.   The site occupied the top of a low rise in a meadow when visited by J.R. Bruce in 1963-4. The burial ground, about 25 metres long on its longer axis, formed a slightly raised area of which the border is more evident on the north side. The site consists of the grass-covered, flat-topped summit of a low hill which falls within a paddock associated with a private house. The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 mapping of 1867 shows a subcircular embanked enclosure at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Chapel & Burial Ground (Site of)'; towards the southwest of the interior the presence of a flagstaff was also marked.  The enclosure measured approximately 24 metres across.  The beginnings of a second embanked enclosure are shown on the same survey immediately to the northeast but are cut by a modern roadway and do not reappear on the other side of the road. Further graves have been reportedly found elsewhere within the grounds of the property: these include several burials close to the house, approximately 150m from the enclosure. Traces of the burial ground were reportedly seen in 1898 and some bones found. Lintel graves have been noted, including one found to the east-southeast of the keeill site in 1954 and examined by B.R.S. Megaw and A.M. Cubbon of Manx Museum. Several reminiscences collected in the mid-20th century amongst local residents suggested, by way of the name Keeill Woirrey, that the chapel had been dedicated to St Mary. No separate corroboration of this oral tradition has been identified: it should be noted that the chapel just 400m to the south-southwest (PRN 0032) shares the same dedication. The Ordnance Survey’s 1:10560 map of 1870 shows a roughly oval mound here, about 25 metres long, with a smaller mound to the northeast which served as a gibbet mound until the early 19th century. This was used as a place of execution from the late 17th until the early 19th century.

The site of an early medieval chapel or keeill and burial ground thought to date to the period A.D. 500-1000. There have been no visible remains of a keeill within living memory. During a visit in 1898 by the IoM Natural History & Antiquarian Society it was reported that graves had been found on the site and that stones had been removed from it for use in the construction of a nearby stable in 1825.   The site occupied the top of a low rise in a meadow when visited by J.R. Bruce in 1963-4. The burial ground, about 25 metres long on its longer axis, formed a slightly raised area of which the border is more evident on the north side. The site consists of the grass-covered, flat-topped summit of a low hill which falls within a paddock associated with a private house. The Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 mapping of 1867 shows a subcircular embanked enclosure at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Chapel & Burial Ground (Site of)'.  The enclosure measured approximately 24m across.  The beginnings of a second embanked enclosure are shown on the same survey immediately to the northeast but are cut by a modern roadway and do not reappear on the other side of the road. Further graves have been reportedly found elsewhere within the grounds of the property: these include several burials close to the house, approximately 150m from the enclosure. Traces of the burial ground were reportedly seen in 1898 and some bones found. Lintel graves have been noted, including one found to the east-southeast of the keeill site in 1954 and examined by B.R.S. Megaw and A.M. Cubbon of Manx Museum. Several reminiscences collected in the mid-20th century amongst local residents suggested, by way of the name Keeill Woirrey, that the chapel had been dedicated to St Mary. No separate corroboration of this oral tradition has been identified: it should be noted that the chapel just 400m to the south-southwest (PRN 0032) shares the same dedication.

Stones from the foundations of a lost keeill were built into a stable wall at Lorn House in 1825. The stables and other outbuildings have been examined but no building stones have been identified as orginating from a keeill.

This two storey building has stone walls and a hipped slate roof, being basically square in plan and set within extensive walled grounds. The south and east facades have a clear architectural expression but the other elevations are confused by a curved projection extending the height of the building from ground to eaves. No interior inspection has been performed. The building appears to be in good repair with a collection of outbuildings. The front facade (east) has a central entrance porch of enclosed wooden panels around which are arranged rectangular windows in the adjacent stone walls. All of the windows are characterised by a cement rendered frame to their openings which is plain at the sides and head but curved below the sill. The southern facade is distinctive in that it has a wrought iron covered verandah across the full width. A central group of three windows (same style as elsewhere) is arranged around a curved projection extending the height of the building from ground to eaves.  The building appears to be in good repair. The house has historic significance in that it was the residence of Governor Hope when built in 1847. Although the architecture is not of outstanding quality it has interest and the building, although all but invisible in Castletown, has always featured prominently in local events. It is suggested that it be listed for preservation. The above assessment was prepared prior to the existence of Registered Building and Conservation Area legislation, in support of the building's protection. The building has since been used as a corporate HQ and more recently as a private residence. It was placed on the Protected Buildings Register in 2015 (No. 269).

Lorne House on Douglas Street in Castletown was originally called "Lorn House" and stands on land that had long formed part of the Abbey estate held by the Taubman family; it has even been suggested the site may overlie a keeill (early chapel), with the 1863 Ordnance Survey marking a "Site of Chapel" nearby, though no conclusive archaeological evidence has confirmed this. The house was built for Robert Cunninghame, son of William Cunninghame and Christian Taubman, who lived there until his death in 1832, with his widow dying two years later; on stylistic grounds the architect may have been Thomas Brine, who worked elsewhere in Castletown. With the house standing empty, Lieutenant-Governor Colonel John Ready leased it from 1834, needing better quarters after rooms at Castle Rushen were given over to the courthouse, and the island's governors continued to use it until 1860, when Governor Pigott's lease was not renewed and the government relocated to Douglas. The house later served from 1931 as a Christian Endeavour holiday home, was converted to investment company offices from 1972 with alterations to its facade, and was restored as a private residence from 2007 by the developer Roy Tilleard.

The findspot of an early prehistoric flint scatter which included 5 blades, flakes and cores collected during the clearance of Lough Cranstal drain upstream from Kiondam Bridge.

Modern gun battery. A gun battery was constructed near Lough House in 1797, as part of a wider response to the threat posed by foreign privateers to the Island's coastline and its shipping. The battery appears to have been designed as one of several placed around Douglas Bay to provide interlocking fields of fire from one end of the bay to the other. The Lough House battery was designed to accommodate two guns, which are present in a subsequent inventory of 1803, although the platform on which they were stood was deemed unserviceable. Curphey places the Lough House battery approximately 750m north of Ballaquayle stream. There is no sign of earthworks in the area now, which is now occupied by a modern hotel.

Lough House on Approach Road, Ramsey, was added to the Isle of Man's register of protected buildings in April 1986 in recognition of its architectural or historical interest, but no further published historical detail about the property has been found.

The tradition was brought into Manx print by R. R. Brash, in his chapter on Mananan Mac Lir in the Manx Society's Antiquitates Manniae of 1868. Mananan, the supposed coloniser and first ruler of Man, from which he took his name, was in Brash's account identical with the merchant or navigator Orbsen, so celebrated in Irish bardic history, from whom Lough Orbsen, now Lough Corrib in Galway, was named. Brash quoted O'Flaherty's Ogygia: the merchant Orbsen was remarkable for carrying on a commercial intercourse between Ireland and Britain, and was commonly called Mananan Mac Lir, Mananan on account of his intercourse with the Isle of Man, and Mac Lir, sprung from the sea, because he was an expert diver who understood the dangerous parts of harbours and from his prescience of the weather always avoided tempests. He gave Keating's genealogy, Mananan the son of Alladh, the son of Elathan, son of Dalboeth, an immediate descendant of Nemedius, progenitor of the Tuatha De Danann, that weird and mystic colony still believed to rule the spirit or fairy land of Erin, to reign paramount in the lis, the cave and the mine, and to occupy genii palaces in the deepest recesses of mountains and under the deep waters of the lakes. Keating further stated, Brash wrote, that the proper name of Orbsen was Mananan, and that the lake was called from him because when his grave was digging the lake broke forth, a myth common to almost every large sheet of water in Ireland. In O'Flaherty's own time, the middle of the seventeenth century, Lough Corrib was still called Lough Orbsen, and in his West Connaught he described the field of Magh Ullin, now Moycullin, where Mananan was slain: there Uillin, grandchild of Nuadh of the Silver Hand, King of Ireland, overthrew in battle and had the killing of Orbsen Mac Alloid, commonly called Mananan, the Mankish man, Mac Lir, son of the sea, for his skill in seafaring. A. W. Moore took the whole of this into the first chapter of his Folk-lore of the Isle of Man in 1891, where Manannan is otherwise called Orbsen, whence Loch Orbsen, now Lough Corrib, is still vividly remembered in Derry and Donegal with an enchanted castle in Lough Foyle, and, by the traditions of the Isle of Man and the eastern counties of Leinster, rolled on three legs like a wheel through the mist. Moore traced the corruption of the name through O'Flaherty, Orbsen to Oreb to Orib to Corrib, and attributed the grave story to O'Flaherty's West Connaught where Brash had given it to Keating. W. Walter Gill, in 1929, set the lake among the waters that were thresholds. Both the Kingdom of the Dead and the Fairy Kingdom, he wrote, were reached in very old and widely diffused belief by a water transit, a sea strait, a lake or river, and sometimes a well, and he noted in the same place that Lough Corrib was said to have issued from the burial place of Manannan MacLir. The god of the Manx sea has a grave, then, in Irish tradition, and the grave is under a lake that came out of it, which is the shape the Island's own tradition gives to Manannan's departure, into the sea and out of sight.

The findspot of a Neolithic flint scatter.

The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.

The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.

The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.

The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.

The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.

The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.