Prehistoric flint scatter.
A small quantity of worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Barnell by CH Cowley, from the 'Road Field on Right near Top'.
The description relates to the area near the junction with the Arrasey road, and the grid referecne is 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 findspot of a collection of Neolithic artefacts including a stone axehead, arrowheads, scrapers, spearheadd and bevelers, including artefacts of Mesolithic Heavy Blade type and Neolithic character.
Cowley found groups of flints together under the turf which, he suggested, represented a working floor. Their character was indefinite but included a Bann 'missile-head'.
An early prehistoric flint knife and flint flake have been recorded from the area around Barnell Reservoir and are kept in the Manx Museum in the Cowley Collection.
The findspot of an early medieval cross-slab from Barroose, which was ploughed up by Mr Gelling, Barroose, circa 1959, about 20 metres from the east hedge and about 65 metres from the south hedge. It is a roughly triangular slab of Manx slate, measuring 48 centimetres x 30 centimetres by 5 centimetres thick, with a crudely inscribed cross within an inscribed oval at the broad end of one face. It is now kept at the Manx Museum.
Prehistoric worked flint.
A scatter of prehistoric worked flint of indeterminate character was found by the Revd Canon Quine in c1919 on Barroose farm, Lonan.
No other details are recorded and the objects have not been identified in the Manx National Heritage collections. The grid reference relates to the farmstead.
The possible site of an early medieval keeill or chapel within the Treen of Morest recorded by Kneen, but not identified on the ground. The cross-slab PRN 0678.00 may possibly be associated.
This roughly triangular slab was found while ploughing on Baroose Farm in 1959. On one face it bears a crudely incised cross in an incised oval frame. The arms of the cross cut just beyond the frame.
Basil Cochrane served as an auditor and signatory on the Isle of Man's revenue abstracts during the mid-eighteenth century, appearing regularly alongside John Quayle in the annual accounts from 1744 to 1758. He was part of the small administrative class that managed the Atholl lordship's finances in the period before the Revestment of 1765.
22 August 1485. The decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses. Thomas Stanley, Lord of Mann, held the balance with his forces uncommitted until the critical moment, then placed the crown on Henry Tudor's head. The battle that confirmed the Stanley lordship and created the Earl of Derby.
1513 battle between England and Scotland, referenced as the subject of the Percy Folio poem (composed 1515–1528) that calls Thomas Stanley 'king of Man.'
2 July 1644. The largest battle of the English Civil Wars, fought on open ground west of York. A combined Parliamentarian and Scottish Covenanter army under Fairfax, Cromwell, and Leven defeated Prince Rupert's Royalist forces. James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, fought there. The defeat ended Royalist control of northern England and left the Stanley cause in Lancashire fatally exposed. Within a year, Knowsley was lost and Lathom House was besieged for a second time.
14 June 1645. The decisive battle of the First English Civil War, fought in Northamptonshire. The New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell destroyed Charles I's main field army. The King's cause was effectively finished as a military force, though fighting continued until 1646. For the Isle of Man, Naseby confirmed what Marston Moor had begun. The Royalist cause was lost, and the Stanley lordship's attachment to it would eventually bring the war to the Island itself.
The supposed site of the 'Battle of Santwat' which took place in 1098 AD. It was fought between the north and south Manxmen and is known through documentary sources.
Cowley attempted to locate the battle field at two places pointed out to him. One suggested site was in the Congary Brooghs area (circa SC 249832) and the other, his preferred site, in the field beyond the bridge on the St John's road from Kirk Patrick, on the left, adjoining Ballamoor where the road known as Barnell starts. From Cowley's description this site would be one centred at SC 247822.
Godred Crovan, a survivor of Stamford Bridge, conquered the Isle of Man at the Battle of Sky Hill near Ronaldsway. He founded the Crovan dynasty that would rule the Kingdom of Mann and the Isles for nearly two centuries. Known in Manx legend as King Orry — Raad Mooar Ree Gorree, the Milky Way, is called the Big Road of King Orry. His conquest established the Norse sea kingdom, with its parliament of 32 Keys representing the sheadings of both Mann and the Hebrides.
Captain John Quilliam of Inch, Isle of Man, served as First Lieutenant aboard HMS Victory at Trafalgar. He took the helm after the original helmsmen were killed, steering the flagship through the battle. Other Manx sailors were among the wounded. The Island that had been stripped of its men by impressment still sent them to fight Britain's wars.
The Battle of Trafalgar, fought on 21 October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the south-west coast of Spain, was the decisive naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, in which the British fleet under Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated the combined fleets of France and Spain. A number of Manx sailors served in the battle across several ships. Captain John Quilliam of Kirk Michael, first lieutenant of HMS Victory, steered the flagship from the gun room after her wheel was shot away; others among the Manx crews were killed or lost limbs in the action.
25 August 1651. James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby, had sailed from the Isle of Man days earlier with a small Royalist force to join Charles II's march into England. At Wigan Lane in Lancashire, Colonel Robert Lilburne's Parliamentary cavalry intercepted them. The engagement was brief and devastating. Derby was wounded and most of his men were killed or captured. He escaped and reached the King, but the force he had brought from the Island was destroyed. Within weeks, Derby would fight at Worcester, be captured, and be executed at Bolton.
3 September 1651. The final battle of the Civil War in England. The Great Stanley (James, 7th Earl of Derby) was captured here after fighting for Charles II. He was tried at Chester and executed at Bolton — the same town where he had led the 1644 massacre.
