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Ballamoar Mill
Modern watermill and associated water management. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building at the grid reference provided. There is no annotation, but the building is served by a millpond and leat. The mill served the adjacent farm, Ballamoar. It was supplied by a leat extending 180m to a millpond, which dammed a stream flowing northwards from Barnell glen. A short tail race returned water directly to the stream. The mill has been converted into a dwelling, named 'Mullen Beg'.
Ballamoar Mill
Modern watermill and associated water management. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building at the grid reference provided. There is no annotation, but the building is served by a millpond and leat. The mill served the adjacent farm, Ballamoar. It was supplied by a leat and a millpond, which dammed a stream flowing northwards from Barnell glen. A short tail race returned water directly to the stream. The mill has been converted into a dwelling, named 'Mullen Beg'.
Ballamoar Mill
Modern leat. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building a little to the east of Ballamoar Farm. There is no annotation, but the building is served by a millpond and leat. The leat is 180m long. Its route is still apparent today, and the grid reference marks a point midway along its course for indicative purposes.
Ballamoar Mill
Modern millpond. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1868-9 shows a building a little to the east of Ballamoar Farm. There is no annotation, but the building is served by a millpond and leat. The millpond covered an area of about 0.1 acres, and was centred at the grid reference provided. It is now drained, but parts of the dam wall are still apparent.
Ballamoar Mound
The site of a supposed tumulus but which is thought to be of relatively recent date, possibly 18th century.   It is a grass and bramble covered, steep sided, ditchless mound situated within a crescent shaped depression and in the area of decayed ornamental gardens of which it almost certainly formed a part.
Ballamoar, Earystane
Worked prehistoric flints found in Ordnance Survey Field no. 792, Ballamoar, Earystane, Rushen. The finds comprise 14 pieces of flint of indeterminate character. The precise findspot is not recorded, and the grid reference relates to the centre of the field. The objects are in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1989-0316.
Ballamoar, Keeill Vael
Medieval chapel and burial ground. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867 shows the location of a chapel and burial ground at this location on Ballamoar farm, together with the annotation, 'Chapel & Burial Ground, Keeill Vael (Ruins of)'. The OS shows the chapel itself, surrounded by a small enclosure. The site was examined by the Manx Archaeological Survey (1915), at which point no trace of the features recorded by the OS was visible above ground. The Survey records that the site had been levelled in about 1900. A Royal Commission inspection in 1976 noted that a curvilinear length of nearby field boundary probably preserved an indication of the former line of the burial ground enclosure in which the chapel had been located. There is no record of graves having been found.
Ballamoar, Keeill Vael
Medieval chapel. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867 shows the location of a chapel and burial ground at this location on Ballamoar farm, together with the annotation, 'Chapel & Burial Ground, Keeill Vael (Ruins of)'. The OS shows the chapel itself, surrounded by a small enclosure. The site was examined by the Manx Archaeological Survey (1915), at which point no trace of the features recorded by the OS was visible above ground. The Survey records that the site had been levelled in about 1900.
Ballamoar, Keeill Vael
Medieval burial ground. The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867 shows the location of a chapel and burial ground at this location on Ballamoar farm, together with the annotation, 'Chapel & Burial Ground, Keeill Vael (Ruins of)'. The site was examined by the Manx Archaeological Survey (1915), at which point no trace of the features recorded by the OS was visible above ground. The Survey records that the site had been levelled in about 1900. A Royal Commission inspection in 1976 noted that a curvilinear length of nearby field boundary probably preserved an indication of the former line of the burial ground enclosure. There is no record of graves having been found.
Ballamodha Flint Scatter
The findspot of a flint scatter of Mesolithic or Neolithic date.
Ballamona
Prehistoric worked flint. A single worked flint of indeterminate character was found in the vicinity of Ballamona Hospital whilst digging a cable trench. The artefact was found 0.9m below the surface. The precise findspot was not recorded but was localised to OS Field no. 1535, which was centred at the grid reference provided. The site is now occupied by the current Nobles Hospital. The object is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1954-6113.
Ballamona Beg Burial Mound
The site of a ploughed-down Bronze Age barrow. It is shown as a mound on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, but 20th century land improvements have seen the site levelled.
Ballamona Beg Horsewalk
The site of a post-medieval horse engine.
Ballamona Burial Cist
The reported site of a possible Bronze Age burial cist. P.M.C. Kermode noted large quartz boulders at the site and a cist was apparently found.
Ballamona Corn Mill
The site of a post-medieval corn mill.
Ballamona Mooar Crop Mark
A crop mark of unknown date and purpose seen on aerial photographs.
Ballamona Mooar Horsewalk
The site of a post-medieval horse engine.
Ballamona, Port Soderick
Roman coin. A bronze coin of Septimius Severus (193-211 AD) was found whilst ploughing in 1889 at Ballamona, Port Soderick. The grid reference refers to Ballamona farm, for indicative purposes. The coin remained in private hands following its discovery.
Ballamooar Horsewalk
The site of a horse walk or horse gin.
Ballamooar Horsewalk
A post-medieval horsewalk at Ballamooar.
Ballamooar Keeill
Ballamooar is thought to be the site of a keeill or chapel, which would have been in use from circa AD500 until circa AD1000. The old farmhouse stood in an enclosure known as Faie Cabb'lagh, the Chapel Close, which stands some 20 metres above sea level. The keeill was close to the gable of the house but has long since been destroyed and no trace of it now remains.
Ballamooar Reservoir
A reservoir at Ballamooar at Barnell, in the north of the island. It was constructed in the 1880s to supply Peel and remained in use until the late 1940s.
Ballamoore
Ballamoore is an estate in the Isle of Man associated with the Moore family, one of the Island's most prominent families. George Moore, a merchant of Peel who served as Speaker of the House of Keys, was knighted in 1781; the Moores of Ballamoore played significant roles in Manx governance, commerce, and public life over several centuries.
Ballanank Flint Scatter
A flint scatter is recorded on an annotated 25" Ordnance Survey map at the Manx Museum. The find was made by a Mr Ellwood, and are recorded as having been found in OS Field no. 1990. There is no further information and no artefacts corresponding to the find have been identified in the Manx National Heritage collections. The grid reference is centred on the annotation.
Ballanard Road Brickworks, Douglas
The site of a post-medieval brickworks.