Annual festivals organised by the Cleveland Manx community from 1853 onward. The festivals brought Manx families together from across the settlements in Cleveland, Newburgh, and Warrensville, sustaining the communal bonds that the emigration had carried across the Atlantic.
From 1880 onward, Manx families from across northern Ohio gathered annually at Cottage Grove Lake for a community picnic. The picnic drew families from Cleveland, Newburgh, Warrensville, and the wider settlements, maintaining the social bonds that had sustained the community since the first arrivals in the 1820s.
In 1779, the Archbishop of York asked Manx people to contribute to the relief of Anglican clergy displaced by the American Revolution — the revolution provoked, in part, by the same fiscal overreach that had impoverished the Manx. The Bishop of Sodor and Man replied that his clergy's preferments and his congregations' circumstances could not afford such generosity. Forty-eight years later, Manx people were emigrating to the very republic the revolution had created, because the island the Archbishop had asked them to subsidise was no longer able to sustain them. The chapel that could not afford to help the displaced clergy was now itself being displaced.
Lords of Mann from 1736 to 1765, inheriting through the female Stanley line. James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, appeared at his first Tynwald 'with a state and magnificence far exceeding any thing of the kind previously witnessed' — the last Lord to preside on Tynwald Hill until George VI in 1945. He died in 1764. His granddaughter Charlotte Murray inherited the Barony of Strange and with it the sovereignty. Her husband John, the 3rd Duke — whose father Lord George Murray had fought for the Jacobites and been attainted — held the lordship for less than a year before accepting £70,000 under duress. He never visited the Island. Charlotte's name is on the Purchase Act; no letter survives recording her views. The 4th Duke spent thirty years petitioning for additional compensation, was appointed Governor in 1793, and told the Keys in 1822 they were 'no more Representatives of the people of Man, than of the people of Peru.' The final settlement in 1829 cost Parliament approximately £487,144 in total. The Manx people received nothing.
Bronze Age cemetery. Sites of up to 15 Bronze Age burial mounds, the remains of which were surveyable when recorded by the Ordnance Survey in 1867. The group lying to the south of the Medieval chapel are numbered 0560.31 - 0560.39, and the group lying to the NE of the chapel 0560.41 - 0560.46
