Ballaradcliffe House on Kiondroghad Road, Andreas, is registered simply as a house. No further verifiable historical detail about this specific property could be found online.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1870 shows a building at the grid reference provided, together with the annotation, 'T. Mill', denoting a threshing mill. The mill was supplied by a leat and millpond, both of which still survive and provide water to a modern fish farm. The tail race would appear to have been culverted from the gable of the mill to a point just above the cliffline, over which it emptied onto the shore.
A ditchless grass covered bowl barrow with a diameter of 16.0 metres and an average height of 1.1 metres. No stones are visible and there is no visible trace of any other barrow in the vicinity.
The Folk Life Survey recorded a large tumulus on Ballagilbert in the field known locally as Magher ny Grongan. Mr Taggart, the tenant in 1918, said there had been others 'of earth with graves at the bottom' and that this remaining one had 'a circle of large stone round it'.
Mr Connal, a later tenant, had always known this field as Magher ny Grongan and there is a local tradition that the dead from a nearby battle were buried here.
Many years ago archaeologists began an excavation of the mound but were stopped before they completed the work by Mr Taggart who blamed the activity for the mysterious death of some of his cattle.
Village in the parish of Malew, immediately beside Rushen Abbey and the Silverburn.
Ballasalla grew at an important crossing of the Silverburn on the road between Castletown and the centre of the Island. Its oldest surviving structure is the Crossag, or Monk's Bridge, which nineteenth-century antiquaries considered likely to date from the period of the neighbouring abbey.
The bridge was already regarded as ancient in Waldron's time. A note in the Manx Society edition of his description called the Ballasalla crossing the oldest of the Manx bridges and connected it directly with Rushen Abbey. Bridge maintenance was a public responsibility: an Act of Tynwald in 1739 levied one penny a year on inhabitants between sixteen and sixty to repair decayed bridges and provide new crossings elsewhere.
Rushen Abbey stood immediately outside the village on the western bank of the Silverburn. The abbey buildings, lands, mills and tenants shaped Ballasalla for centuries, while the river supplied both the religious house and the later village.
Ballasalla also served as a local market and fair centre. Waldron's notes identify it as a market for fowls, and Robertson's eighteenth-century list records fairs at Ballasalla in April, August and September.
The village stood on the route between Castletown and Douglas, close to the crossing towards Derbyhaven and Ronaldsway. Its position beside the abbey, river and bridge made it one of the principal stopping points in the southern interior.
A post-medieval church at Ballasalla. The foundation stone of the church was laid by Lady Ridgeway in 1885 and the church was dedicated in October 1897.
Modern chapel.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First edition mapping shows a chapel at this location, annotated as a Primitive Methodist chapel.
The site was acquired for its construction in 1833.
The chapel was closed in 1949, though it continued in use as a Sunday school until 1975. Its seats, pulpit and choir pews transferred to Ballafesson and it was sold in 1980.
It is now used as a store.
Modern chapel.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First edition mapping shows a chapel at this location, annotated as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel.
The chapel dates from 1797. It was replaced by a larger chapel on a new site 70m to the south in 1893.
It is now used as a young men's club.
The site of a post-medieval horse engine, recorded as a one-horse machine, with the threshing machine itself substantially intact but the building in a ruinous condition.
The site of a ditchless, grass covered bowl barrow which was opened in 1885. It measured circa 15.9 metres in diameter by 0.4 metres high when recorded in 1957. It has since been lost as a surface feature.
A Bronze Age collared urn was found here, of Longworth Secondary Series Form Iron Age, measuring 42.5cm high with a decorated collar and internal rim bevel. (Manx Museum, Accession No. 1954-0596b).
A crop mark of unknown signficance seen on aerial photographs.
The site is also the findspot of a prehistoric flint scatter which included worked flints, scrapers and flakes.
The findspot of a Mesolithic flint scatter. It included worked flints of probable Heavy-blade or Bann type, 11 blades, flakes, an assymetrical 'missile head' and 2 worked slates.
Prehistoric burial cist.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 First Edition mapping of 1867-8 records this site, together with the annotation, 'Stone Cist found hereabouts'.
Kermode (1930) records its discovery prior to 1867 without further comment.
No further finds are recorded.
