The Mona's Mutual Benefit Society was a fraternal organisation established by the Manx diaspora community in Cleveland, Ohio. It provided mutual aid and social support to Manx emigrants and their descendants in the city's substantial Manx-American population.
The Mona's Relief Society was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1851 by five Manx emigrants - James Christian, John Corlett, William K. Corlett, William Cubbon, and William Brew - to assist and care for poor immigrants from the Isle of Man arriving with empty pockets or in poor health. It is honoured as a pioneer among the many benevolent societies that later came into being to support various immigrant communities in America.
The Mona's Relief Society Ladies' Auxiliary was the women's branch of the Mona's Relief Society in Cleveland, Ohio. It supported the parent organisation's charitable work on behalf of Manx emigrants and their families in the Cleveland area.
Medieval packhorse bridge. The structure is the only medieval bridge on the Island, and may date from the 12th century when Rushen Abbey was founded. It leads to the abbey's extensive agricultural estates which were spread through the north and east of the parish of Malew.
The bridge is humpbacked, spanning the Silver Burn with two main arches. There is also a small subsidiary opening by the west bank. The bridge is 13m long and just 1.9m wide, with 1m high parapets on both sides. The arches are pointed and constructed of narrow voussoirs set in plenty of lime mortar (similar to the construction of the round vault in the chapter house of Rushen Abbey). The bridge is defended against the flow of the river by sharp cutwaters on the upstream face.
Medieval packhorse bridge. The structure is the only medieval bridge on the Island, and may date from the 12th century when Rushen Abbey was founded. It leads to the abbey's extensive agricultural estates which were spread through the north and east of the parish of Malew.
The bridge is humpbacked, spanning the Silver Burn with two main arches. There is also a small subsidiary opening by the west bank. The bridge is 13m long and just 1.9m wide, with 1m high parapets on both sides. The arches are pointed and constructed of narrow voussoirs set in plenty of lime mortar (similar to the construction of the round vault in the chapter house of Rushen Abbey). The bridge is defended against the flow of the river by sharp cutwaters on the upstream face.
Coin - a single sestertius - of Trajan (A.D. 98-117), found in the masonry of Monk's Bridge, Ballasalla.
The coin is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1954-2530.
A table of contents page for Monumenta de Insula Manniae, a foundational collection of historical documents relating to the Isle of Man. This is a web-based index to a comprehensive documentary source that would cover medieval to early modern Manx history, likely including materials relevant to constitutional, administrative, and legal history of the island.
This is a web-based table of contents page for Monumenta de Insula Manniae, a collection of historical documents and records relating to the Isle of Man. The page appears to be from an early web implementation using HTML frames technology, indicating mid-1990s to early 2000s origin. It serves as a finding aid and navigation tool for accessing primary source materials relevant to Manx history.
This is a table of contents / index page from Manx Society Volume 7 (Monumenta de Insula Manniae Vol 2), cataloguing medieval documents from 1282 relating to Isle of Man, Scotland, and Norway. It lists charters, donations, and agreements involving King Magnus of Man, Scottish kings, Norwegian kings, and the monastery of Rushen. The documents cover territorial compositions, royal confirmations, and administrative records relevant to Manx sovereignty and ecclesiastical holdings.
Volume II of a published collection of historical documents relating to the Isle of Man, edited and translated by J. R. Oliver, M.D., and published by the Manx Society. Contains medieval charters, legal documents, and administrative records spanning from 1134 to the reign of Henry IV. Includes explanatory maps, an extensive table of Latin abbreviations used in ancient records, and detailed administrative and ecclesiastical documents relevant to Manx constitutional and legal history.
Mooragh Camp in Ramsey was a civilian internment camp on the Isle of Man during the First and Second World Wars. Along with Knockaloe, Rushen Camp, and other sites, it was used to intern enemy aliens, reflecting the Island's role as a location for wartime internment due to its geographical isolation.
During the Second World War, the Mooragh Camp at Ramsey was one of several internment facilities on the Isle of Man. Douglas boarding houses along the promenade were also requisitioned for internment purposes. Once again, the island was being defined by someone else's needs — a convenient location to hold people the British mainland did not want. The pattern was familiar: Mann had been used by other people for other people's purposes for as long as it had existed in other people's awareness. The internment camps of two world wars defined Mann as a holding pen, just as the Revestment had defined it as a revenue line.
George Moore and others travelled to London repeatedly to petition for relief from the consequences of the Revestment. The deputations were received politely and achieved nothing. Moore's letters from London, preserved in the Bridge House Papers, document the experience of a Manx patriot confronting parliamentary indifference.
The historian A.W. Moore fixed 1824 as the date at which the Manx labourer reached his lowest depth of misery. The 1827 emigration ships sailed three years later. The timing was not coincidental. The people who packed their chests and walked behind the carts laden with luggage from the north of the island to the harbour at Douglas were leaving at the worst possible moment — which was also the only moment when leaving became easier to face than staying.
Worked flints of indeterminate character including a blade, and a possibly utilised stone, found in Ordnance Survey Field no. 1542, Moorhouse farm, Rushen.
The precise findspot is not recorded and the grid reference refers to the centre of the field.
The artefacts are in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1989-0061.
Undated enclosure.
A circular enclosure is sometimes visible as a cropmark on a slight ridge running through Field no 414683 (Isle of Man Government digital mapping, 2016), centred at the grid reference provided.
A small scale test excavation by AM Cubbon (Manx Museum director 1956-84) in the 1970s demonstrated that the cropmark was the result of an artificially created ditch, on the strength of which it was suggested that the enclosure might relate to an Iron Age ringfort of the kind excavated by Dr G Bersu (see PRN 0007, PRN 0008).
