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.
Barry Alan Crompton Gibb (born 1 September 1946 in Douglas) is a singer-songwriter and the eldest of the Bee Gees, one of the best-selling music groups in history. Born on the Island before his family emigrated first to Manchester and then Australia, he co-wrote hits performed by the Bee Gees and by artists including Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton and Diana Ross, and was knighted for services to music. The Bee Gees are commemorated in Douglas by a bronze statue unveiled in 2021 near their birthplace.
Basil Cochrane, Governor of the Isle of Man in the 1750s and a signatory of the lordship's accounts.
He appears as an auditor and signatory on the Island's revenue abstracts through the middle of the century, regularly alongside John Quayle in the annual accounts from 1744 to 1758, and his name stands with John Quayle's and Daniel Mylrea's at the foot of Acts promulgated at Tynwald.
His own letters to the Duke of Atholl survive and show the ordinary business of the office. Writing from Castletown on 6 September 1751 he sent the Duke the commission for the General Sumner, reported that his Grace's orders would be obeyed, and turned to the weather: they had had very bad weather of late which had done a great deal of damage to the harvest, and the herring fishing, which had promised greatly about ten days before, was at present at a stand. Another of his letters of that year deals with the altering of the style, the change from the old reckoning that began the year on 25 March to the new.
On 28 February 1760, a Royal Navy squadron under Captain John Elliot (HMS Aeolus, HMS Pallas and HMS Brilliant) decisively defeated a French privateering squadron under François Thurot off Jurby Head, in sight of the Isle of Man, during the Seven Years' War; Thurot was killed and all three French frigates captured, with French losses far exceeding the five killed and 31 wounded on the British side. The battle followed Thurot's raid on Carrickfergus, Ireland, and is commemorated at Bishopscourt by the Mount Aeolus memorial, built with two cannons and the bowsprit of the French flagship Maréchal de Belle-Isle, which washed ashore nearby.
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.
Naval battle of 21 October 1805 with a direct Manx connection through Captain John Quilliam.
Quilliam was born in the south of the Isle of Man in 1771. A. W. Moore’s account of his naval career records that he first came prominently to notice at the Battle of Camperdown, where Admiral Duncan promoted him to lieutenant.
At Copenhagen in 1801 Quilliam served in a shallow-draught frigate operating close beneath the Danish batteries. After the officers senior to him were killed, he was left in command. Moore repeated the later story that Nelson came aboard during the action, asked how things were going and received Quilliam’s characteristically brief reply: “middlin’”.
Nelson subsequently appointed him first lieutenant of HMS Victory. At Trafalgar Quilliam therefore served aboard Nelson’s flagship during the action in which the combined French and Spanish fleet was defeated.
Moore wrote that Quilliam helped steer the Victory into battle. The precise details of his role have been treated differently in later accounts, but his service aboard the flagship at Trafalgar is firmly established in the Manx biographical tradition.
Naval battle of 21 October 1805 with a direct Manx connection through Captain John Quilliam.
Quilliam was born in the south of the Isle of Man in 1771. A. W. Moore’s account of his naval career records that he first came prominently to notice at the Battle of Camperdown, where Admiral Duncan promoted him to lieutenant.
At Copenhagen in 1801 Quilliam served in a shallow-draught frigate operating close beneath the Danish batteries. After the officers senior to him were killed, he was left in command. Moore repeated the later story that Nelson came aboard during the action, asked how things were going and received Quilliam’s characteristically brief reply: “middlin’”.
Nelson subsequently appointed him first lieutenant of HMS Victory. At Trafalgar Quilliam therefore served aboard Nelson’s flagship during the action in which the combined French and Spanish fleet was defeated.
Moore wrote that Quilliam helped steer the Victory into battle. The precise details of his role have been treated differently in later accounts, but his service aboard the flagship at Trafalgar is firmly established in the Manx biographical tradition.
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.
The reported site of a late prehistoric hut circle. Set on a hill sloping steeply to the south, this fern-covered hut circle consists of an approximately circular scooped out hollow with a diameter of 5.0 metres, and a bank 1.4 metres wide and 0.2 metres high on the south side only. There is no trace of any stonework though stones are exposed in the north side where the soil has been scooped away.
Other features are said to have been noted in the area. Although the evidence is now rather vague, minor irregular platforms may indicate hut sites, and fragments of banks may indicate old field boundaries. The stone from the area has probably been largely removed for the construction of the surrounding modern walls. The area is split by later disused field banks.
At a place called 'The Old Sheepfold', within the fence of Greeba plantation, about 400 metres west of Boshen, are several great stones set on end which are known locally as Fratlag. Two small circles on intack east of Braid ny Boshen, northwest of the farm buildings, may mark the site of an early settlement. These were noted by Megaw but have not been seen in recent times. The area west of Boshen is thickly planted with conifers and the spot known as Fratlag is now lost.
