A corn mill of late medieval and post medieval date is recorded in this area. The 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map shows mill ponds and leats feeding a probable mill at Ballastrang Farm.
An elongated mound marked on the 1868 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map, but not shown on later maps. It is still visible. The occupier has stated that their grandmother prevented her son digging it because of tradition that it was a burial place.
The site of a Viking burial mound totally excavated by Bersu in 1946. A coffin burial of the late 9th century was found, with grave goods comprising a knife, broken sword, one spear inside the coffin, two on top, and a shield laid to the side of the coffin. A mound was built over the burial pit and the body of a sacrificed woman placed on the top, and the whole covered with earth.
The Viking burial partly overlaid a cremation cemetery of the Neolithic Ronaldsway culture. At least ten deposits of densely compacted bones were uncovered, and probably many more had been destroyed by farming in the surrounding area. One cremation was in the broken remains of an urn of Ronaldsway type, and remains of a large round-based Ronaldsway-type urn were also found. A number of shallow circular or oval hollows were found, containing charcoal, soot and ashes with fragments of cremated bones. They were regarded as 'ustrinae', holes beneath funeral pyres from which cremated bones were recovered.
A number of post-holes and a foundation-trench of uncertain, pre-Viking date were also found. They may have been associated with the cemetery. No trace remains of the mound and the site is grass covered and has been latterly used as a general refuse dumping ground.
The site of a Viking burial mound totally excavated by Bersu in 1946. A coffin burial of the late 9th century was found, with grave goods comprising a knife, broken sword, one spear inside the coffin, two on top, and a shield laid to the side of the coffin. A mound was built over the burial pit and the body of a sacrificed woman placed on the top, and the whole covered with earth.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballaterson by C.H. Cowley, from 'Next to Bridge Over Stream opposite Congary'. The flints included an arrowhead and a spearhead. 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.
The apparent site of a burial ground associated with an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use during the period circa AD500-AD1000. It was located on the east side of Port-y-Vullen where a cottage now stands in the plot numbered as No. 674 on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. A Mr Cowin and others from the neighbourhood remembered seeing lintel graves ploughed up here.
The apparent site of a burial ground associated with an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use during the period circa AD500-AD1000. It was located on the east side of Port-y-Vullen where a cottage now stands in the plot numbered as No. 674 on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. A Mr Cowin and others from the neighbourhood remembered seeing lintel graves ploughed up here.
The apparent site of a burial ground associated with an early medieval keeill or chapel, which would have been in use during the period circa AD500-AD1000. It was located on the east side of Port-y-Vullen where a cottage now stands in the plot numbered as No. 674 on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. A Mr Cowin and others from the neighbourhood remembered seeing lintel graves ploughed up here.
A small Primitive Methodist chapel is shown here on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. It no longer stands and the site is now occupied by a modern dwelling.
Modern watermill and associated water management.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 marks a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Corn Mill'.
The mill stands on the right bank of the Ballaugh stream, but takes its water from a leat extending 130m upstream. The take-off for the leat is controlled by a sluice adjacent to a ford, and the leat is culverted under the road access to Ballaterson Moar farm, which it served. A 30m tail race returns the water to the stream.
The structure is now used as an outbuilding.
Modern watermill.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 marks a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'Corn Mill'.
The mill stands on the right bank of the Ballaugh stream. It now serves as an outbuilding.
Modern mill leat.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1869 depicts a building together with the annotation, 'Corn Mill', on the right bank of the Ballaugh stream.
A 130m leat supplies water to the mill, following a course parallel to the stream; waterflow is controlled by a sluice located at its upper end adjacent to the take-off point. The grid reference is provided for indicative purposes and marks a point half way along its course.
