Old Manx people will tell you, even today, that the oldest Manx families all originated with the ‘Seven Mollys’ – that is the names beginning with ‘Myle.’ But like many …
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Perhaps the most primitive form of sorcery practiced in the Island was ‘the Curse’, used as much by enthusiastic amateurs as by the notorious practitioners and always dreaded by those …
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On the coast of Lonan, about a mile and a half eastward of Laxey is Struan-y-Granghie, a little streamlet that comes tumbling over high cliffs of rock before it enters …
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Signed from the road, St Patrick’s Chair stands in a field called Magher y Chiarn (field of the Lord) and is a collection of stones with some set vertically, two …
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King Orry’s Grave is in two parts, one behind a house and the other across the road and up the hill. Both are the remains of Neolithic tombs about 5,000 …
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The 148 first names and 37 family names are taken from Fockleyr Gaelg-Baarl / Dictionary Manx-English (1993) by Phil Kelly which is still available online on the archived gaelg.iofm.net site. …
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I can hear the fairies calling from the meadows far away, Where the daffodils are gleaming through a veil of misty grey, In the magic of the morning, when the …
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Between Bow Veg and Glen Wither, on the coast north of The Sound, is a place called Lhiondaig Phollinag, or the Mermaids’ Green or Garden, and the tradition is that …