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 …
Manx Life
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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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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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The chapel on St Michael’s Isle on the Isle of Man is an example of the type of building erected by the Norse-Celtic Christian community probably in the earlier part …
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Cross no. 138 at Old Kirk Braddan on the Isle of Man. A fragment of a cross having a design of two diagonal rings interlaced, decorated with notches and flourishes …
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Close to Orrisdale, this monument is a Bronze Age burial mound and easy to access via a public footpath though it is on a working farm with livestock. Having crossed …
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The Monks’ Bridge is a narrow 12th century packhorse double-arched bridge paved with quartz cobbles which spans the Silverburn river immediately north of Rushen Abbey and adjacent to the mill …