Ballure is a small hamlet about 0.75 mile southeast of
Ramsey
Ramsey may refer to:
Geography British Isles
* Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, a small market town in England
* Ramsey, Essex, a village near Harwich, England
** Ramsey and Parkeston, a civil parish formerly called just "Ramsey"
* Ramsey, Isle of Man, t ...
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. A stop on the
Manx Electric Railway which runs through it is the
Ballure Halt (or Ballure Glen) station. The latter lies just to the south of the boundary of Ramsey, and thus lies in the ward (and traditional parish) of
Maughold within the current administrative parish (and traditional sheading) of
Garff.
Legend
Arthur William Moore
Arthur William Moore, CVO, SHK, JP, MA (6 February 1853 – 12 November 1909) was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man. He published under the sobriquet A. W. Moore.
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reported that there was a sighting of the
glashtin or
Cabbyl-Ushtey, a water-horse of Manx legend at Ballure Glen in 1859.
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References
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Villages in the Isle of Man