New website for Isle of Man Wells – another of my interests. Many of the wells have been forgotten and neglected for years and I would like to highlight their…
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As Manx as the Hills is delighted to be an Environmental/Culture partner of UNESCO Biosphere Isle of Man. Among the Isle of Man’s many special attributes is that it is…
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Happy Laa Luanys. It’s that time of the year when the bounty of the land and the strength of the summer days bring us a much needed harvest. May…
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Thie Ferrishyn was the name sometimes given to what was supposed to have been the first house built in a village, its oldest house, because the fairies were fondest of…
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Known as ‘the Hump’, this tumulus was recorded in 1930 as being 15 yards in diameter (13.7m) and 8 feet high (2.4m). It sits in a beautiful setting at Ballaleece…
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You must know that once in every hundred years the Good People hold a fair on Midsummer Day. When the gorse was bright as gold on all the Island hedges…
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The Manx farmyard was known as ‘the Street’ and around it stood the stable, cowhouses, barn and pigsty. The ‘midden’ was never far from the stable and cowhouses and here…
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I went to Patrick school where there were two classes – an Infants’ class and a Junior one. I was in the Infants’ class together with about 20 other children…