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Ballakilmurray Flint Scatter
Prehistoric flint scatter. A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballakilmurray by CH Cowley, from the 'Field North of Glebe'. This appears to relate to the western part of the former OS Field no. 1108, which is centred at the grid reference provided. This field is correctly part of Lhergydhoo (see PRN 3335.10). The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Ballakilmurray Mill Dam
The dam of a millpond at Ballakilmurray, shown on the 1869 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map.
Ballakilmurray Threshing Mill
A record for a post-medieval threshing mill.
Ballakilpheric Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
The Wesleyan Methodist chapel at Ballakilpheric (grid reference SC224713) was constructed in 1850, replacing earlier meetings held in the farmhouse of a local preacher known as 'Tom the Dipper'. It was subsequently extended by the addition of a Sunday school, built at right angles to the east gable in 1889. Electric lighting was installed in 1937, funded by local Methodist preacher Richard R. Kermode, with electric heating added the following year.
Ballakindry Mill
Site of water mill and associated water management. The current mill building is still standing, and is recorded but not described on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of 1868. The associated buildings shown just to the east are now destroyed. The millpond is located just to the north.
Ballakindry Mill
Site of water mill and associated water management. The current mill building is still standing, and is recorded but not described on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of 1868. The associated buildings shown just to the east are now destroyed.
Ballakindry Millpond
Site of water mill and associated water management. The millpond is located just to the north of the mill and is recorded on the Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition map of 1868. The substantial dam is nearly 50m long and is centred at SC2429571000. The leat survives as a field drain as far as the wheel pit which is now filled in, and the tailrace ran behind the now destroyed buildings which lay to the east of the mill. Water from the dam now drains down the side of the Ballagawne Road before running through Ballaclague and eventually to Strandhall.
Ballakinnag Burial
Bronze Age "urns", presumably funerary urns, were reportedly found in this area before 1930, but no burial mound is known.
Ballakinnag Flint Scatter
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter.
Ballakinnag, Knock-y-doonee Flint Site
The findspot of a Neolithic flint scatter. A fragment of a bronze vessel has also been found here.
Ballakissack Chapel
The site of a Methodist chapel at Ballakissack, in Santon parish. Land at Ballakissack was also used for other parish institutional purposes: a plot "part of Ballakissack" was bought for £50 on 28 February 1848 for Santon's new parish school, which was built at a cost of around £430 and opened in 1852, remaining in use until 1986. Santon's Methodist chapels in this period were otherwise centred on sites near Port Grenaugh and at Newtown/Ballakelly (the 1810 Ballakelly Wesleyan Chapel), giving Ballakissack a documented role alongside these in the parish's 19th-century religious and educational landscape.
Ballakoig Burial Cist
In 1881 two cinerary urns of Bronze Age date were found here which included a bone needle and fragments of a bronze ornament. They were found about 130 metres south of the mouth of the stream in an area which has since been lost to coastal erosion.   One was a collared urn of Longworth Secondary Series, Form Iron Age, circa 30cm high with decorated collar and internal rim bevel. It is now kept in the Manx Museum, Accession No. 1954-3069 (Corpus No 766). The second was another collared urn of Longworth Secondary, Northwest Style, Form III, of which 18cm survives, with a decorated collar and internal rim bevel. This is also kept in the Manx Museum, Accession No. 1954-0571 (Corpus No 767). A Neolithic or Bronze Age stone axehead, rectangular in section and with a broken butt end found in the Ballakoig brooghs, which was donated by to the Manx Museum by the Rev. W. Kermode (Accession No. 1954-0616) may be associated.
Ballakoig Horsewalk
The site of a post-medieval horse engine. The circular horse walk is shown on the 1870 1:2500 Ordnance Survey map to the eastern end of a building to the north of the farmyard.
Ballakoig, Hacketts Tower, Cass Ny Hawin Gorse Mill
The site of a post-medieval gorse mill recorded at Cass ny Hawin.
Ballaleaney Burial Mound
The site of a Bronze Age barrow, shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. Canon Quine reported that flints had been found here.
Ballaleece Flint Scatter
The findspot of a Mesolithic "Heavy-blade" type blade found near a mound in the southwest corner of the field.
Ballaleece Flint Scatter
The findspot of a round-ended scraper, 37 mm across, and a flint blade of early prehistoric date.
Ballaleece Flint Scatter
Prehistoric flint scatter. A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballaleece by CH Cowley. No further details concerning the circumstances of the discovery were recorded and the grid reference relates to the farmstead for indicative purposes only. The antiquary Charles Harry Cowley was an avid collector of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts revealed by agricultural activity, mainly on farms located around Peel, and occasionally from further afield. He was active from 1900 until 1943. His entire collection of artefacts, together with a daybook cataloguing his discoveries, was later donated to Manx National Heritage.
Ballaleece Flint Scatter
The findspot of a round-ended scraper, 30 mm across, of early prehistoric date.
Ballaleece Horsewalk
A post-medieval horsewalk at Ballaleece.
Ballaleece Tramway
The Abbey Clay Works was founded in the 19th century on the site of an earlier corn mill. The Clay Works is shown on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, which shows a tramway connecting to works to a clay pit, 150 metres to the north.
Ballaleigh Settlement
The conjectured site of a Bronze Age settlement.
Ballaleigh, Glen Jeebult Settlement
A record for a Bronze Age settlement.
Ballaleigh, Glen Jeebult Settlement
A record for a Bronze Age settlement.
Ballaleigh, Glen Jeebult Settlement
A record for a Bronze Age settlement.