SKETCHES
IN THE
ISLE OF MAN

BY

ROBERT JAMES KELLY.

 

 

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!

 

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co., STATIONERS’ HALL COURT.

1844.

 

P. CURPHEY, Printer, Manx Sun Office, Douglas.

TO
EDWARD MOORE GAWNE, ESQ, OF KENTRAUGH, 
THIS LITTLE VOLUME,
INTENDED TO PORTRAY SOME PORTIONS OF THE SCENERY OF THE
ISLE OF HIS NATIVITY,
 IS
DEDICATED AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF RESPECT BY
 THE AUTHOR.

 

 

 

Contents

CHAP.

PAGE.

1 Dalby and the Narbyl Point

1

2 Maughold Head — Ramsey and its Neighbourhood.

8

3 Snafield — Sulby Glen

18

4 Peel Castle

25

5 Douglas Bay—Laxey Village and Glen

40

6 The Nunnery—Braddan Church

57

7 The Southern Shores — Spanish Head — Calf of Man..

73

8 Glen Helen — Fall of Rhennass

87

9 Rushen Abbey

96

10 Glenmay

111

11Castle Rushen

121

 

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