Village and parish on the west coast of the Isle of Man, in Michael Sheading.

Kirk Michael was the ecclesiastical centre of the parish and lay close to Bishopscourt, the traditional residence of the Bishops of Sodor and Man. An early description records that Bishop Simon died at Kirk Michael in 1247 and associated the district with the bishop's palace.

The churchyard became particularly noted for its carved stones. The large Joalf Cross at Kirk Michael was repeatedly used by nineteenth-century antiquaries in studies of Manx runic ornament. Its decoration was compared with the Oter Cross at Braddan and other Scandinavian monuments on the Island.

Runic inscriptions from Kirk Michael also supplied evidence for personal names and the Norse language in Mann. The crosses were drawn, rubbed and compared with monuments elsewhere in the British Isles and Scandinavia as antiquarian interest in the Manx stones developed during the nineteenth century.

The parish extended from the western coast towards the central hills. Bishopscourt lay within it, and the Bishop's Well in the glen was also known as the Wishing Well. Gill connected it with a well mentioned in a 1677 perambulation of the Michael and Ballaugh parish boundary.

Kirk Michael was a local fair centre. Robertson's list records two fairs there in October.