A large slab found at the site of a chapel and burial ground (IOMHER 1003.00) at Ballelby. The site was known as Keeill yn Chairn ('Chapel of the Lord') but is now ploughed down. The stone bears an unusual cross on one face. It is formed from five closely set squares, four representing a limb, and the fifth set in the centre to form the body of the cross. The outline of each square is incomplete, as if it were originally intended to be joined to its neighbour.
Prehistoric flint scatter.
A single worked prehistoric flint was recovered from Ballelby by CH Cowley.
No further details concerning 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 site of an early medieval cross which was found at the chapel and burial ground known as Keeill yn Chiarn ('the Lord's church') at Ballelby - the site's earlier name was Maloney, from Manx/Irish for 'devotee of the church'. The fine cross slab is now set up at the barn of the nearby farm (cross slab No 49). A separately recorded sculptured stone was found covering a grave containing a battle-axe about nine chains to the south.
A woollen mill is shown here on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. This was originally the site of a tuck-mill built by one Ann Killey. It was later used as carding mill as part of Moore's Tynwald woollen mills complex until circa 1920.
The site of a probable Bronze Age bowl barrow, which has been landscaped in modern times. The lower area would indicate an original diameter of 9.0 metres. In the centre is a heap of small and fairly large stones, none of which appear to be in situ, which are now a grass covered oval dump 4.0 metres in diameter and 0.8 metres high. There is no trace of a ditch.
The site of a very denuded barrow. It is a ditchless bowl barrow with a diameter of 25 metres and minimum height of 0.4 metres. It was under corn stubble when recorded and showed no heavier scattering of stones than does the surrounding ground. By its gentle slopes and topographical situation it is probably Bronze Age, not Viking, in date.
The cumulative recovery over several decades of worked flint and coarse stone artefacts, including a dozen stone axes, from Ballnahowe farm (PRN 0042, farmstead at SC19056845) and the Howe (PRN 0048, placename centred on Ordnance Survey First Edition 1:2500 map at SC19186810), would tend to suggest the presence of Neolithic settlement somewhere in the locality.
This iron and steel viaduct on Ballure Road carried the Manx Electric Railway across Ballure Glen and was built in 1899, the year the line's final extension into the centre of Ramsey opened (the earlier 1898 line from Laxey had terminated just short, at Ballure). It was formally granted protected status by the Isle of Man Government in September 2025 as one of a group of historic transport landmarks recognised for their engineering and railway heritage.
Ballure Chapel stands within the ancient Treen of Ballure, on the site of one of the early Christian "Kiels" that predate the Island's formal parish churches, and is generally referred to as Ballure or Ramsey Chapel, though it has also been called St Catherine's. In 1712, the occupants of the Treen's quarterlands, together with the inhabitants of Ramsey, were assessed to keep the chapel in repair, and it was lengthened to 61 feet in 1743. As Ramsey's population grew in the early nineteenth century the chapel could no longer hold the congregation, leading to the construction of St Paul's Church in the town in 1822. Ballure's graveyard was traditionally used as a "potter's field" for the burial of strangers, while long-established Ramsey families continued to bury their dead at their older parish churches.
Ballure Cottage stands on Ballure Road, Ramsey. Beyond confirming its address and Registered Building status, no verifiable historical detail about this specific cottage was found online.