Manannan's Road, the old name for the road leading to St John's and the Tynwald site. Kneen identified the St John's end of this road as Follagh y Vannin, which he argued was a corruption of Bollagh Vanannan, Manannan's Road, the English word road being added when the meaning of the Manx had become obscure. The road names preserve the pre-Christian connection between Manannan and the site where Tynwald would be established.
Beach Cottage stands on Ballure Road, Ramsey, in a stretch of coastline near a secluded sandy beach and close to the Ballure Walk, Lhergy Frissel and Claughbane Walk footpaths. Beyond confirming its address and Registered Building status, no verifiable historical detail about this specific cottage was found online.
A post-medieval house in Douglas Street, Castletown.
The Ordnance Survey 1:2500 large scale mapping of 1867 shows the dwelling , its outline substantially the same as today, together with its name, 'Beach House'.
Beaconsfield Tower forms part of a house and tower complex on Jurby Road, Ramsey, now used as an assisted-living/residential care facility known as Beaconsfield Towers. Beyond its Registered Buildings listing, no verifiable construction date or further specific history could be confirmed online.
Four cairns are shown on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map in this vicinity but this is one of two which still survive today. This example is a ditchless bowl barrow with a diameter of 16.0 metres and a minimum height of 0.2 metres. It has been spread by ploughing and appears to be an earth mound rather than a stone cairn.
Kermode noted that an urn was found in one of the four cairns marked by the Ordnance Survey here. This may well be the same urn as was reported to B.R.S. Megaw in 1950 by the finder, who related that they had found and reburied the urn in 1916 (see PRN 1720.00).
Four cairns are shown on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map in this vicinity but this is one of two which still survive today. This example is a low, indistinct mound, with no stones are exposed on its surface. It is virtually ploughed out.
Kermode noted that an urn was found in one of the four cairns marked by the Ordnance Survey here. This may well be the same urn as was reported to B.R.S. Megaw in 1950 by the finder, who related that they had found and reburied the urn in 1916 (see PRN 1720.00).
A number of 'hut dwellings', possibly representing medieval shieling mounds, have been noted in this area. They may possible correspond with hut sites recorded by Kermode (PRN 0990.00).
The site of an early medieval chapel or keeill and burial ground is shown here on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. The name of the keeill is lost and the foundations of the chapel seem to have been entirely removed and the area ploughed over.
It appears that the correct site of this keeill is 50 metres to the south-east of that marked by the Ordnance Survey, being about 230 metres north-west of Beary farmstead, on the skyline as seen from the road in the glen. The position of the burial ground was proved 'some years ago' by the then proprietor of Beary Farm, Mr George Smith, who found lintel graves while ploughing in this field.
P.M.C. Kermode (1855-1932) noted possible hut circles in this general area, but the exact location of these features is not known. It is possible that he was referring to shieling mounds recorded as PRN 1721 (700 metres to the east of this point) or sheiling mounds recorded as PRN 1722 (1km to the north-northeast).
Beckwith's was a lead mine in Glen Rushen, opened in 1831 after a lump of lead was found in a hay cart's track, and worked by the Isle of Man Mining Company until 1879. It struggled throughout with severe underground flooding, especially when sinking its engine shaft. Ruined engine houses, a chimney and other mine buildings still stand beside the Glen Rushen road, part of the wider Manx Mining Trail through the valley.
The remains of a 19th century metal mining site. Surviving features include circular buddles and wooden launders (partly exposed by earlier excavations), earthwork dams and leats, the square Engine shaft or Beckwith's shaft, with attached engine house, boiler house and round chimney, at least one circular section air shaft, a powder house, the office and a crushing plant with an attached wheelcase. There was a larger wheel to lift its tail water back up for re-use.
A metal mine site recorded in Patrick, associated with the Beckwith's Mine workings on the northern slopes of South Barrule in Glen Rushen, worked for lead by the Isle of Man Mining Company between about 1830 and 1879. Its isolated position has helped protect much of the surface archaeology, and many original mine buildings survive nearby.
Extract from Bede's Ecclesiastical History (Book II, A.D. 616) describing King Edwin of Northumbria's subjugation of the Mevanian Islands (identified as Anglesey and the Isle of Man) and their extent. Provided with parallel Latin text from the original. Relevant as early historical documentation of the Isle of Man's political status and administrative divisions.
Transcription of passages from Bede's Ecclesiastical History (written c. 731) describing early Anglo-Saxon kings and their dominion over Britain, including the Mevanian Islands (Anglesey and Isle of Man). The text notes that King Edwin of Northumbria subjected these islands to English rule and provides population estimates. Provides historical context for medieval Manx sovereignty and early English claims to the island.
Bedstead Corner is a left-hander on Bemahague Road around the 36.9-mile point, marked by a pedestrian overbridge. The surrounding stretch between Signpost Corner and Governor's Bridge was largely rural farmland until housing and infrastructure development changed the area between roughly 1990 and 2015, and the road surface here has since been resurfaced.
The site of a possible Bronze Age barrow, which has been eroded by past agricultural activity. It survives as a flat topped, ditchless, irregular grass-covered mound which was originally described as being set in marshy ground. It measures 19.0 metres north to south by 13.0 metres east to west with an average height of 1.1 metres. Early sources suggest that burnt stones and soil were noted here.
A mound recorded near the avenue to Begoade house, about 35 metres to the southeast, which is a possible Bronze Age barrow. It is a partly grass covered, ditchless mound with a cart-road crossing its lower slopes in the west. Its diameter is 7.0 metres and its average height 0.3 metres. Near it are two modern dumps of road building materials and it may be another such dump.
The site of the Beinn y Phott lead mine which opened in 1866. The complex is shown on the 1870 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map. This is a distinct mine from the nearby Snaefell Mine, despite the two sharing an almost identical map coordinate.
Bronze axehead.
This Bronze Age palstave has high, cast flanges and a pronounced central rib. The haft end is damaged. The object is loaned to the Manx Museum.
The axe was reputedly found at Bellabbey, and the grid reference applies to the farmstead.
A slate disc was found during the construction of a row of bunglows along the roadside in 1967. The disc is 35mm in diameter and 3mm thick.
The field was formerly used as a fairground and is still known by the name Magher Feailley ('fair field').
The grid reference is centred on the houses.
The disc is in the Manx National Heritage collections, accession no. 1967-0074.
A possible Viking burial mound recorded at Ballelby (SC 220786) Kirk Patrick. Oswald (a) notes that 'Mr Evan Gell, of Ballelby, Dalby, informs me that on digging into a mound of earth on his farm, about eight or ten years ago (i.e. about 1850), a complete human skeleton, with a halbert or battle-axe by its side, was found, and distinct traces of its haft visible, which he forbore to disturb.' The site is not known. The OS 25 inch sheet XII/1 marks a 'Tumulus' (remains of) in field 1950 which is on the adjoining property of Ballaquane, but only 150 yards from the boundary of Ballelby (SC 27 NW 4). Megaw added that a similar find from Borrane (SC 27 NW 26) may be related or identical with the Ballelby find, but due to the vagueness of the reports this could not be proved. Kermode (3) also related the Ballelby find with the tumulus (SC 27 NW 4) and also, possibly, the spear and two swords found at Glenrushen in 1810.
