The burial mound in the churchyard, with another on the skyline
View of the church from the south
The burial mound in the churchyard, with another on the skyline
The crosses are displayed in the porch on the north side of the church
13 Found
in the hedges of the Vicarage (from Ballacurry Keeill ?)
A plain linear cross.
(Wrongly labelled MM16 in modern reprint of Manx Crosses, Appendix
D, page 29 - unless the number discs have got swopped over between crosses
13 & 16)
16 From
Ballacurry Keeill
A finely-cut cross on a water-worn stone, the ends of the limbs decorated
by cross-bars. In addition (which Kermodes does not note) there appears
to be 3 additional lines on one cross-bar and a small cross scratched centrally
in one quarter of the cross. The stone was found during excavations at
Ballacurry Keeill in about 1910. The Keeill is about a quarter of a mile
to the north west of the vicarage, in the "Treen" of Lez-Sulby.
Above right: sketch made by D J Radcliffe on 25/5/2003
Below: sketch based on illustration by PMC Kermode (wrongly labelled
MM13 in modern reprint of Manx Crosses, Appendix B, pages 10 & 11 -
unless the number discs have got swopped over between crosses 13 &
16)
119 (93) Sigurd Cross (from Keeill Coonley)
Above: Detail of Sigurd
125 (98) Bottom portion of cross. Found in a corner of the churchyard.
127 (99) Top portion of a cross. Found in Jurby churchyard.
134 (107) Fragment of cross-head showing figures of a stag and a boar.
Found loose on the
wall of the churchyard.
143 From
Ballaconley Keeill
179
18 (14)
103 (78)
(c) David J. Radcliffe 2003