Bronze Age burial mound. A ditchless largely grass-covered burial mound with strong superficial quartz content, some of which may be the result of modern cairn-building.

Bronze Age burial mound. A ditchless largely grass-covered burial mound with strong superficial quartz content, some of which may be the result of modern cairn-building.

Bronze Age burial mound. A ditchless largely grass-covered burial mound with some superficial quartz content, which may be the result of modern cairn-building.

There is a possible settlement in the wider area here, said to include a "camp" but also a system of modern field boundaries and a trackway. These features represent a system of farming and field lay-out which was decaying at the time of the Ordnance Survey map of 1869. They consist of field banks which fit into the field lay-out shown on the 1869 map but which has since been superseded by different field boundaries. The trackway also fits into this old farming method and no doubt served as communication between an outlying sheep-fold and the farm.

Bronze Age standing stone. A fallen standing stone is located to the west of the upslope burial mound (see record 0810.10).

The site of two hut circles, thought to be of Iron Age date set on a tongue of land between two streams with precipitous slopes on three sides. Hut A has an external diameter of 7.0 m and the height of the wall bases is 0.5 m. There is a vague trace of an entrance in the northwest side.  Hut B is misshapen and elongated measuring 7.0 m northeast to southwest by 6.0 m northwest to southeast. The average height of its walls is 0.3 m. There is no trace of an entrance.  The huts have spread walls now approximate 1.5 m wide and appear to be built on a slightly raised mound.  P.S. Gelling records these as medieval shieling mounds.

The site of the burial ground of an early medieval keeill or chapel, thought to have been in use during the period circa AD500 to circa AD1000. No traces remain of the keeill as the site has long been ploughed over. A broken slab bearing the beginning of an inscription in runes - 'Thorbjorn raised this cross...' was found in the stackyard wall of Rhyne farm and is now in the Manx Museum (Cross Slab. No 139). Slight evidence for the burial ground enclosure associated with the keeill has been noted, but this too have been almost totally ploughed out.

The site of an early medieval keeill or chapel, thought to have been in use during the period circa AD500 to circa AD1000. No traces remain of the keeill as the site has long been ploughed over. A broken slab bearing the beginning of an inscription in runes - 'Thorbjorn raised this cross...' was found in the stackyard wall of Rhyne farm and is now in the Manx Museum (Cross Slab. No 139). There is nothing to indicate the date of this keeill but the finding of this monument shows it was still in use for burial as late as the 12th century. Slight evidence for the burial ground enclosure associated with the keeill has been noted, but these too have been almost totally ploughed out.

Ringfort. This well preserved circular earthwork, set in marshy ground, has an overall diameter of 30m and consists of two concentric banks separated by a medial ditch and a central platform. The diameter of the inner bank top is 8m. In the north-east there is a causeway 3m wide across the ditch and corresponding breaks in both banks creating an entranceway. The site is unexcavated, but superficially appears similar to sites like Ballacagen and Port e Candas.

This end of terrace two storey cottage has been completely modernised including the finishing of the attic space with the placement of roof light windows. The building occupies a prominent position in that it forms the corner of Bridge and Douglas Streets while backing onto the harbour entrance. The original cement rough cast stucco and the slate roof have been renewed and the original windows replaced including the insertion of a bowed window in place of two earlier sash windows at the eastern end of the main facade. The entrance which fronts directly onto the driving surface of the road is framed in a neo-classical portico of a later addition. The house appears to be in first class condition although no interior inspection has been made. In view of the extent of modernisation which has taken place there would appear to be no strong reason to consider listing this building for preservation. It is not known if there are any over-riding historical events or personalities associated with the cottage, but there are no obvious attributes which would single it out for special treatment. The main consideration concerns the siting of the structure and whether demolition would destroy the essential massing or character of the immediate grouping. It is true that demolition would alter the character of this corner and it might be argued that the traffic hazzard posed by the present configuration threatens the life of this building. Yet these factors do not seem sufficiently strong to warrant a specific listing of the Rock. This assessment was prepared prior to the existence of Registered Building or Conservation Area legislation on the Isle of Man with a view to determining whether or not the site was worthy of protection.   In the event, the property was not afforded individual protection, but has been included within the town's conservation area.

Modern horsewalk. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 shows a horsewalk at this location. The entire farmstead, comprising house, barn (to which the horsewalk platform was attached on the north side) and one other outbuilding, has been demolished.

Late/Post medieval gun battery. The round battery on Horse Rock was constructed during the reign of Henry VIII. It provided three embrasures for cannon and was designed to enhance the protection of the castle and Peel Bay against enemy shipping.

The "Round Table" or "Boaryd Runt" is a flat topped, ditchless, heather-covered mound with a diameter of 10.0 metres and a height of 0.7 metres which has rather angular sides. It is possibly a bowl barrow.

In the 1750s, a single week’s customs entries at Douglas recorded tea from China, brandy from France, violins from Rotterdam, gunpowder for the African trade, and coal from Liverpool — all arriving at the same tiny harbour. This card game challenges your family to load a trading vessel with the right cargo. Print the cargo cards, each showing a real trade good that passed through Manx harbours. Players draw destination cards (Lancashire, Cumberland, Dublin, the Guinea Coast) and must assemble a profitable cargo before the revenue cutter catches them. Every cargo item is real, every route is real, and every price is based on what these goods were actually worth in the 1750s. What Parliament called smuggling, the Manx people called trade. The goods were entered legally through the Duke of Atholl’s customs house. Every duty was paid. Nothing was against Manx law.

The oldest recorded rent on the Island. Bundles of coarse meadow grass carried to the summit of South Barrule each midsummer and offered to Manannán mac Lir, the god of the sea. The practice predates Christianity. The Traditionary Ballad records the destinations: some rushes went "up to the great mountain above Barrool" — South Barrule — and some to "Mannanan above Keamool" — Cronk y Voddy, Manannán’s Chair. Sacheverell, writing in the 1690s, could find record of only one tax Manannán had ever levied: "a quantity of rushes, which were brought him on Midsummer day." The Supposed True Chronicle confirms it: "he never had any form of the comons; but each one to bring a certain quantity of green rushes on Midsummer Eve." A god whose rent was grass. A legislator whose tax was something you could pull from a ditch. Culture Vannin confirms the tradition survived into the modern era: "Even up until a couple of hundred years ago, rushes gathered at the bottom of the hill were brought to the summit in tribute, usually on Midsummer’s Eve." Some Manx people still make the gesture today. And Sophia Morrison draws the line that matters: Manannán received the yearly rent of green sedge at the Festival of the Sun on Midsummer Eve, and as the people sat on the slopes of his mountain they would weave mats for his palace, for they were clever plaiters of rush. "And that is why to this day rushes are strewn on the path to Tynwald Hill on Midsummer Day." A farm adjoining the Tynwald grounds held its tenure tithe-free on the condition of providing rushes for the Tynwald ceremony. The rushes laid along the procession way connect the constitutional ceremony to a pre-Christian offering. The oldest parliament in continuous existence, and its annual ceremony still carries a trace of a tribute to a pagan god. Nobody planned that. It survived because it mattered.

A comprehensive historical narrative of the 1765 revestment of the Isle of Man to the British Crown, covering negotiations between George Grenville's Ministry and James, 2nd Duke of Atholl; the legislative process; the subsequent claims by the 4th Duke for additional compensation; and the political and economic consequences for the Manx people. Central to understanding the constitutional, financial, and social dimensions of the Revestment.

A comprehensive historical narrative of the 1765 Revestment of the Isle of Man from the Dukes of Athole to the British Crown. Covers the death of Duke James in 1764, negotiations under George Grenville, the Duke's initial resistance and eventual acceptance of £70,000 compensation, Parliamentary legislation, and subsequent disputes over inadequate compensation by the fourth Duke until 1805. Includes detailed analysis of revenue figures, the Mischief Act, and the constitutional implications for Manx independence.

A comprehensive historical chapter on the 1765 Revestment of the Isle of Man, covering negotiations between the British Ministry under George Grenville and the 2nd Duke of Atholl, the passage of the Act of Revestment and supplementary Mischief Act, and subsequent disputes over compensation raised by the 4th Duke. Includes analysis of smuggling, revenue, constitutional law, and the impact on Manx sovereignty and trade.

A Master's thesis examining western colonial schemes (particularly Vandalia) and land speculation companies in British North America after the Seven Years' War. Analyzes how debates over new colonial governments and western settlement revealed fundamental disconnects between pragmatic republican visions emerging in the colonies and authoritarian imperial ideology in London, contributing to revolutionary sentiment.

One of three ships that carried Manx emigrants to Ohio in 1827. The Chile was chartered by the Corletts of Orrisdale and carried about thirty-six passengers. The Corletts were a long-established Manx family — when they chartered a ship to Ohio, a family that had farmed Orrisdale for generations was uprooting itself.

One of three ships that carried Manx emigrants to Ohio in 1827. The Curler carried about thirty-one passengers.

The largest of three ships that carried Manx emigrants to Ohio in 1827. The Ocean carried roughly a hundred and twenty-nine passengers — its handwritten manifest suggests a ship that did not normally carry passengers, pressed into service for this particular human cargo. The party was headed by John Sayle, sixty-seven years old, a Wesleyan Local Preacher who had helped produce the 1799 Manx hymn translation. With him travelled Patrick Cannell, seventy-two, another Local Preacher.

The Silverburn is a river in the south of the Isle of Man, flowing through Ballasalla past the ruins of Rushen Abbey and into Castletown Bay. It is the principal watercourse of the southern part of the Island and has been historically important for milling and as a natural boundary in the landscape.

A hut circle recorded at The Sloc.

The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 large scale mapping published in 1870 shows a mine entrance at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Lead Mine'. The working appears to have been quite short-lived, suggesting that it may have been little more than a trial.