Land

Inland and agricultural: the glens, Snaefell and North Barrule, the curraghs, sod hedges and stone walls, the upland and the farms. The Manx Loaghtan, the native four-horned sheep, and Cregneash, the crofting village kept as a working museum. Also the Manx cat, which is a genuine and documented mutation of the Brachyury gene rather than a tourist invention, but which carries Manx syndrome, a real spinal welfare problem that an honest archive shows alongside the charm.

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  1. - Snaefell pictured at Douglas.. The Steam Packet vessel Snaefell of 1863 at Douglas. The company named a succession of ships Snaefell after the island's highest point, Manx Sniaull, from the Old Norse for snow mountain.
  2. - Snaefell leaving Ramsey. The Steam Packet vessel Snaefell of 1910 leaving Ramsey (Rhumsaa). Ramsey is the island's second port and the northern terminus of the Manx Electric Railway.
  3. - Fishing boats at Peel, Isle of Man. Fishing boats at Peel in 1972. The island's herring fleet had already collapsed by then: from over 300 nickeys based on the island in 1879 to just 25 boats in 1922, and the modern Manx fishery is scallop and queen scallop.
  4. - Skyhill farm, Isle of Man. Skyhill farm above the Glen Auldyn valley, with views to North Barrule. Skyhill was the site of Godred Crovan's decisive battle in 1079, after which he took Mann and founded the Crovan dynasty.
  5. - View of Ballaterson Manor from the Crossroads. Ballaterson Manor seen from the crossroads, a modern house rather than a medieval one. Manx farm names beginning Balla, from balley, a farm or homestead, are among the most common place-name elements on the island.
  6. - Sulby Glen - Isle of Man. The young Sulby river running over rocks in Sulby Glen. The glen is the largest on the island and cuts back into the central massif below Snaefell.
  7. - Man sheep.. A Manx Loaghtan sheep. The breed's name comes from the Manx lugh dhoan, mouse brown; by the 1950s only 43 animals survived, and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust raised it to priority status in 2025 because numbers are falling again, with fewer than 1,500 registered breeding females.
  8. - Cows alongside Side Burn. Cattle grazing beside a burn. Agriculture accounts for a small share of the island's economy today, but it shaped the field pattern and the sod hedges that define the lowland landscape.
  9. - Crossroads on the A14 Sulby to Sandygate Road. The crossroads on the A14 between Sulby and Sandygate, signposted to Ballaugh Curraghs. The Curragh is the island's largest wetland and holds a nationally important winter roost.
  10. - May Landry 1. A kitten described by its shelter as a Manx mix. Taillessness in the Manx cat is caused by a dominant mutation in the T gene, Brachyury, and the same mutation causes Manx syndrome, a spinal and spinal-cord malformation with real welfare costs.
  11. - Ramsey War Memorial, Isle Of Man.. The war memorial at Ramsey (Rhumsaa). The island's war memorials date mainly from after 1918, the year the Knockaloe internment camp was still operating a few miles away.
  12. - Bofors gun Ronaldsway. A Bofors gun at the Manx Aviation and Military Museum beside Ronaldsway airport. Ronaldsway was an RAF and Fleet Air Arm station in the Second World War, at the same time as the island's boarding houses were serving as internment camps.
  13. - Millennium Way, north of Ballasalla. The Millennium Way north of Ballasalla. The long-distance path runs the length of the island from Castletown to Ramsey along an old royal highway route.
  14. - View of derelict swimming pool Bradda Glen. The derelict swimming pool at Bradda Glen, Port Erin. Open-air pools like this served the island's resort trade and were abandoned when mass holiday traffic collapsed.
  15. - The Tower of Refuge Illuminated. The Tower of Refuge in Douglas Bay, illuminated. The tower was built on St Mary's Isle as a shelter for shipwrecked sailors on the rock at the harbour mouth.
  16. - FIL 2012 - Arrivée de la grande parade des nations celtes - Île de Man. The Isle of Man delegation arriving in the grande parade of Celtic nations at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient, 2012. The island is counted among the six Celtic nations on the strength of Manx, a Goidelic language sister to Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
  17. - Bonhams - The Paris Sale 2012 - Norton Manx - 003. A Norton Manx racing motorcycle at auction. The Manx was Norton's production racing single, named for the island where the marque made its reputation at the TT.
  18. - Doolish 2013 40. A bilingual street sign in Douglas (Doolish), 2013. Manx appears alongside English on the island's signage, and place names are the densest surviving layer of Gaelg in daily use.
  19. - Manx Ballads and Music by A. W. Moore - 1st edition front cover. The front cover of the first edition of A. W. Moore's 'Manx Ballads and Music', 1896. Moore collected the island's song tradition at the point when the Manx language that carried it was in steep decline, from around 16,200 speakers in 1874 to 4,419 by 1901.
  20. - Image taken from page 7 of '(Black's Guide to the Isle of Man.)'. A plate from Black's Guide to the Isle of Man, 1896, scanned from the British Library's Mechanical Curator collection. Guidebooks of this period were produced for the mass steamer trade from the Lancashire and Yorkshire mill towns.
  21. - Doolish 2013 38. The Legislative Buildings in Douglas, 2013. Tynwald moved here from Castletown in 1874, and the House of Keys has met in Douglas ever since.
  22. - Best Buds. A cat named Manx alongside a dog. The Manx breed's taillessness spread through a founder effect: a small island cat population plus a dominant gene, which is what a genuine natural island mutation looks like rather than a fabrication.
  23. - Chatelaine (ginger Manx cat) and Tropea (dilute tortoiseshell cat). A ginger Manx cat and a dilute tortoiseshell in a shelter. A 2013 study found three single-base-pair deletions and one duplication-deletion in the T gene across independent Manx lineages in the United States and on the island itself, each truncating the Brachyury protein.
  24. - Glen Maye (22). Glen Maye on the west coast. The island's national glens are wooded ravines running to the sea and form a distinct Manx landscape category maintained for public access.
  25. - 2014 - 08 - Royal Manx - Friday (22). The Royal Manx Agricultural Show, 2014. The show is the island's principal farming event and displays the Manx Loaghtan alongside commercial breeds.
  26. - Island at War - 2014 - Black and White (1). An Island at War re-enactment event on the Isle of Man Steam Railway. The island's wartime experience was principally one of internment: six named camps operating at once, holding civilians including Jewish refugees from Nazism classed as enemy aliens.
  27. - 2015 12 19 Duke Special Ben Castle Hannah Peel National Theatre 07. A performance including the Northern Irish musician Hannah Peel. Manx and Irish Sea musical connections run both ways across a narrow stretch of water.
  28. - 2015 12 19 Duke Special Ben Castle Hannah Peel National Theatre 20. A performance including the musician Hannah Peel. The island's cultural connections run across the Irish Sea rather than only to England.
  29. - Claughbane, home of Josephine Kermode (Cushag). Claughbane near Ramsey around 1911, home of the poet Josephine Kermode, who wrote as Cushag. Cushag is also the Manx name for the ragwort, adopted as an unofficial national flower.
  30. - Isle of Man Tour 2015-Pt 75. Part of a motorcycle tour of the island. Away from the racing, the island's roads run through farmland, upland and the glens that reach down to the sea.
  31. - Old School Hill, Laxey. Old School Hill at Laxey (Laksaa). The village grew around the Great Laxey Mines and its steep streets follow the valley down to the harbour.
  32. - Wildlife Park (41). The Curraghs Wildlife Park at Ballaugh. The park sits beside the Ballaugh Curragh, the island's largest wetland, which is a designated wetland of international importance.
  33. - Wildlife Park (28). The Curraghs Wildlife Park at Ballaugh, in the north of the island. The park adjoins the Ballaugh Curragh wetland, which supports one of the largest hen harrier roosts in Europe.
  34. - Wildlife Park (33). The Curraghs Wildlife Park at Ballaugh. The park stands next to the Ballaugh Curragh, a wetland whose willow carr is unlike anything else on the island.
  35. - Maughold Sunshine Isle of Man. Sunshine at Maughold. The parish on the island's north east coast is named for St Maughold, Maghal in Manx, and holds a major collection of early Christian cross slabs.
  36. - Isle of Man by Drone - Groudle. Groudle from the air. Groudle Glen is one of the island's wooded glens and carries a narrow gauge railway built in 1896 to bring Victorian visitors to a headland zoo.
  37. - FIL 2017 - Grande Parade 108 - Rushen Silver Band. The Rushen Silver Band in the grande parade of Celtic nations at the Festival Interceltique de Lorient, 2017. The island takes part in the inter-Celtic circuit as one of the six Celtic nations, and hosts its own festival, Yn Chruinnaght.
  38. - Sulby Reservoir, on a misty day. 's largest glen and supplies much of the north.
  39. - In Dhoon Glen 1. Dhoon Glen. The glen drops steeply to the sea on the east coast and has one of the island's highest waterfalls, reached from a Manx Electric Railway halt.
  40. - Dhoon Glen IOM 1. Dhoon Glen on the island's east coast. It is one of the national glens, a steep wooded ravine falling to a shingle beach, with the island's highest waterfall.
  41. - IOM Glen Walks: Ballaglass Glen. A walk through Ballaglass Glen. The island's national glens are wooded ravines, a landscape category maintained as public open space and distinct from the open upland.
  42. - Walking on the Isle of Man with Julia Bradbury. 's walking routes include the coastal Raad ny Foillan and inland routes over South Barrule, North Barrule and Snaefell (Sniaull).
  43. - Walks: MAUGHOLD (Maghal) Countryside | ISLE OF MAN 🇮🇲 tEAvEE 🎥 4K. Walking in the Maughold countryside. Maughold, Maghal in Manx, is a coastal parish combining farmland, cliff and one of the island's most significant early Christian sites.
  44. - Isle of Man 100 Mile Hike. A hundred mile hike around the island. The Raad ny Foillan links the coast; inland routes cross South Barrule, Snaefell and the northern plain.
  45. - Manx Fiddle Orchestra: The Sheep under the Snow / Arrane ny Ghuilley Hesheree. The Manx Fiddle Orchestra playing 'The Sheep under the Snow' and 'Arrane ny Ghuilley Hesheree'. Ne Kirree Fo'n Sniaghtey is among the best known Manx tunes and belongs to the island's upland sheep farming.
  46. - "Little Rhymes in the Manx": Music and the Herring Workers. A talk on music and the herring workers. Herring was the island's historic mainstay, and the fleet fell from over 300 Manx nickeys in 1879 to 25 boats in 1922.
  47. - Ballasalla View from the Monk's Bridge 2. The view from the Monks' Bridge at Ballasalla. The packhorse bridge served Rushen Abbey and is one of the oldest surviving bridges on the island.
  48. - Cregneash Café mug. A mug in the café at Cregneash. The folk village is a working settlement run by Manx National Heritage rather than a reconstruction.
  49. - Ramsay Grove Museum of Victorian Life Interior Main Bedroom 3. The main bedroom at the Grove Museum of Victorian Life, Ramsey (Rhumsaa). The Grove was a Victorian merchant family's summer house and is preserved by Manx National Heritage with its contents intact.
  50. - Stephen Rycroft outside the Manx Aviation and Military Museum. Outside the Manx Aviation and Military Museum at Ballasalla, beside Ronaldsway airport. The museum covers the island's wartime airfields and its aviation history.
  51. - The View to Sulby Reservoir. 's largest glen, under the northern flank of the central hills.
  52. - Looking down the path on Snaefell, toward the Bungalow and Mullagh Ouyr. Looking down the path on Snaefell towards the Bungalow and Mullagh Ouyr. The Bungalow is where the Mountain Course crosses the Snaefell Mountain Railway, so the road racing circuit and the 1895 tramway intersect at a level crossing.
  53. - Ramsay Grove Museum of Victorian Life Interior Dining Room 2. The dining room at the Grove Museum of Victorian Life, Ramsey. The house belonged to a Liverpool merchant family who summered on the island, which is exactly the traffic the Steam Packet was founded to carry.
  54. - Is farming on the Isle of Man sustainable? A film by Energy Media UK. A film asking whether farming on the island is sustainable. Manx agriculture works a small upland-edged land area inside a UNESCO Biosphere designation that covers the entire jurisdiction.
  55. - Sheepdog Memories: A conversation about Manx sheepdog trials. A conversation about Manx sheepdog trials. Sheepdog work belongs to the island's upland farming, where the Manx Loaghtan, a small dark brown four-horned breed, is the distinctive local sheep.
  56. - Hiking the Isle of Man part 3: The End | Ep 82. The final stage of a hike around the island. The Isle of Man is roughly 32 miles by 14, small enough to walk around and varied enough to include upland, cliff, wetland and farmland.
  57. - River Roy. The River Roy at Laxey. The Laxey valley streams powered the mines' wheels, including Lady Isabella, because the island has water but no coal.
  58. - Peel (2023-05-02) 01. A museum at Peel (Purt ny hInshey). Peel is the island's west coast port and the historic centre of the herring fishery, once called the king of the sea.
  59. - The Craic was 09 in the Isle of Man (LXXVI). Prospect Hill in Douglas, looking up from the end of Athol Street. Athol Street is the island's financial district, where insurance and e-gaming each account for around 17 per cent of national income.
  60. - Ramsey (2023-05-04) 06. A war memorial at Ramsey (Rhumsaa). The island sent men to both world wars while hosting Britain's civilian internment camps on its own soil.
  61. - Union Mills Memorial Hall. The Memorial Hall at Union Mills, built in 1903 in memory of soldiers of the West Riding Regiment. The island's memorials record British regiments as often as Manx ones, which is a consequence of its constitutional position.
  62. - Ronaldsway Airport. 's own contribution to the prehistoric record.
  63. - Isle of Man Airport Terminal. The Isle of Man Airport terminal at Ronaldsway. The island runs its own airport and air links as part of its self-government, though the United Kingdom handles its international representation.
  64. - The Craic was 09 in the Isle of Man (LXXV). The Isle of Man Bank at the junction of Prospect Hill and Athol Street, Douglas. Banking accounts for around 9 per cent of national income, alongside insurance at 17 per cent and e-gaming also at 17 per cent.
  65. - The Craic was 09 in the Isle of Man (CXLVII). The statue of George Formby in Douglas, depicting him in the film 'No Limit', which was shot on the island. The 1935 comedy is set around the TT and is one of the few pieces of mass-market cinema made on Manx roads.
  66. - Cregneash | Cregneash Café | Isle of Man | #priest #islandlife #travel #IsleofMan #4k #IsleofMan4k. A visit to Cregneash. The folk village, Creneash in Manx, is Manx National Heritage's living museum of crofting life and was the home village of Ned Maddrell, the last native speaker of Manx from a Manx-speaking community.
  67. - South Barrule | Isle of Man | Walk With The Gaming Vicar | #islandlife #priest #photography #travel. A walk up South Barrule. The hill carries a substantial Iron Age hillfort and is one of the island's principal upland archaeological sites.
  68. - From Fascists to Herring Girls: A walk around Peel with Albert Frost. A walk around Peel with Albert Frost, from the wartime fascist internees to the herring girls. Peveril Camp at Peel held around 550 British and foreign fascists from May 1941, while the herring trade that preceded it employed women gutting and packing fish along the quay.
  69. - Tholtans of the Manx Crofter: Photographs 1965 - 1991 by Mike Goldie. Mike Goldie's photographs of Manx tholtans, the ruined crofts, taken between 1965 and 1991. Tholtans are the physical record of the heavy nineteenth and early twentieth century emigration from the island after mining and the herring fishery collapsed.
  70. - Walking Glen Helen to Rhenass Falls | Gentle Isle of Man Walk with My Wife. A walk from Glen Helen to Rhenass Falls. Glen Helen is one of the island's wooded national glens and also a named section of the Mountain Course, where Victor Surridge was killed in practice on 27 June 1911, the first recorded fatality on the circuit.
  71. - COUNTRYSIDE 01 JULY 2025. Manx Radio's Countryside programme for July 2025. Countryside is the island's long-running weekly agricultural broadcast and is one of the fullest records of Manx farming as it is actually practised.
  72. - AT YOUR SERVICE - The Big Table comes out on top; Archbishop John Sherrington comes to town - and.... An episode covering island church life and a visit by Archbishop John Sherrington. The island forms the diocese of Sodor and Man, a name preserving Old Norse Sudreyjar, the Southern Isles of the Norse-Gaelic kingdom.
  73. - COUNTRYSIDE 18 NOVEMBER 2025. Countryside for November 2025. Manx farming works alongside a rare breeds sector; the Manx Loaghtan was down to only 43 animals by the 1950s and was raised to priority status by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in 2025 as numbers fell again.
  74. - Make Space for Nature 2024. The Manx Wildlife Trust's Make Space for Nature campaign. The island's hedgerows and sod hedges, built of earth and stone, are a distinctive Manx field boundary and a significant habitat.
  75. - COUNTRYSIDE 28 OCTOBER 2025. Countryside for October 2025. Autumn on Manx farms centres on the primestock shows and the movement of upland sheep down to lower ground.
  76. - A very special COUNTRYSIDE Christmas. A Christmas edition of Countryside. The programme has recorded the island's agricultural year continuously for decades and is a substantial oral record of Manx farming.
  77. - COUNTRYSIDE 03 DECEMBER 2024 - XMAS PRIMESTOCK SHOW, ANDREW NORTH and DOT TILBURY. Countryside covering the Christmas Primestock Show. The primestock shows are the island's principal livestock competitions and a fixture of the Manx agricultural calendar.
  78. - COUNTRYSIDE 18 MARCH 2025. Countryside for March 2025. Manx farms work a land area of roughly 220 square miles in total for the whole island, of which a substantial share is upland grazing.
  79. - COUNTRYSIDE 14 OCTOBER 2025. Countryside for October 2025. The island's agricultural policy is set by Tynwald, and its farm support arrangements are separate from those of the United Kingdom.
  80. - Isle of Man - Hike to South Barrule 483 m - 06.05.2025. A hike to the summit of South Barrule at 483 metres. The hill carries a large Iron Age hillfort with the remains of many roundhouses inside its ramparts.
  81. - COUNTRYSIDE 11 MARCH 2025. Countryside for March 2025. Manx livestock farming includes the Loaghtan, a rare breed whose numbers fell to 43 animals in the 1950s and which the Rare Breeds Survival Trust raised to priority status in 2025.
  82. - Farming on the Isle of Man with Ean and Harry Parsons. Ean and Harry Parsons on farming on the island. Manx farms operate under Tynwald's own agricultural legislation, the island being outside both the United Kingdom and the European Union.
  83. - Dairy Farming on the Isle of Man, dung beetles and cheese tasting - with David Cooil. David Cooil on dairy farming, dung beetles and Manx cheese. Dairying is one of the island's main farming sectors and supplies a local processing industry.
  84. - A Hidden Glen Walk to the Sea | Ballaglass Glen to Port Cornaa (Isle of Man). A walk through Ballaglass Glen to the sea at Port Cornaa. Ballaglass is one of the island's national glens, wooded ravines running down to the coast.
  85. - COUNTRYSIDE 17 MARCH POD. Countryside for March 2026. The programme covers the island's livestock, arable and horticultural sectors through the farming year.
  86. - Countryside - 14th July 2026. Countryside for July 2026. Manx agriculture is small in scale but politically significant, with land use decisions made by Tynwald rather than by any outside authority.
  87. - Perspective 10.5.26 - National security & the climate & nature crisis I. A discussion of national security and the climate and nature crisis. The island holds UNESCO Biosphere status across its entire land area and territorial sea, awarded in 2016.
  88. - COUNTRYSIDE 10 FEBRUARY 2026. Countryside for February 2026. Winter feeding, lambing preparation and livestock health dominate the Manx farming calendar at this point in the year.
  89. - Perspective 3.5.26 - Orsted respond to the Mooir Vannin wind farm critics. Orsted responds to critics of the Mooir Vannin wind farm. Offshore development in Manx territorial waters falls inside the island's whole-jurisdiction UNESCO Biosphere designation.
  90. - COUNTRYSIDE 24 MARCH 2026 YOUNG FARMERS CONCERT. Countryside covering the Young Farmers concert. The Manx Young Farmers clubs run an annual concert season alongside their agricultural activity.
  91. - COUNTRYSIDE - 21 JULY 2026. Countryside for July 2026. Midsummer on the island covers silage, shearing and the run-up to the Royal Manx Agricultural Show.
  92. - COUNTRYSIDE 30 JUNE 2026. Countryside for June 2026. Manx farming operates within a jurisdiction that sets its own agricultural law and support, separately from the United Kingdom.
  93. - COUNTRYSIDE 28 JULY 2026. Countryside for July 2026. The island's Curragh wetland in the north, at Ballaugh, is one of its most distinctive habitats and sits alongside its farmland.
  94. - What does the future of farming on the IOM look like?. A discussion of the future of farming on the island. Agriculture is a small share of the Manx economy beside insurance and e-gaming, each of which contributes around 17 per cent of gross national income.
  95. - COUNTRYSIDE 23 JUNE 2026. Countryside for June 2026. Early summer on Manx farms covers silage, shearing and the shows.
  96. - Meet the Isle of Man’s RAREST bird - the Tree Sparrow. The tree sparrow, described by the Manx Wildlife Trust as the island's rarest bird. The island's birdlife is monitored by the Trust and by Manx BirdLife, and the Calf of Man supports around 33 breeding seabird species.
  97. - Perspective 8.2.26 - Blue-tongue, cattle health status and the meatplant - who’d be a farmer thes.... A discussion of bluetongue, cattle health status and the island's meat plant. Disease status matters disproportionately to an island jurisdiction that controls its own imports and exports of livestock.
  98. - COUNTRYSIDE 11 AUGUST 2026 Royal Manx Show 2026. Countryside covering the Royal Manx Show of 2026. The Royal Manx Agricultural Show is the island's principal farming event of the year.
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