Meayll Hill (
Manx: ''Cronk Meayll''; also called The Mull) is a small hill in the exclave of
Rushen
Rushen ( ; ), formally Kirk Christ Rushen, is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man.
It is located in the south of the island (part of the traditional ''South Side'' division) in the sheading of the same name.
Administrat ...
parish at the southern end of the
Isle of Man
The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern ...
, just outside the village of
Cregneash
Cregneash or Cregneish () is a small village and tourist destination in the extreme south-west of the Isle of Man, about from Port Erin. Most of the village is now part of a living museum run by Manx National Heritage. There are also a num ...
. It is the site of a
chambered cairn
A chambered cairn is a burial monument, usually constructed during the Neolithic, consisting of a sizeable (usually stone) chamber around and over which a cairn of stones was constructed. Some chambered cairns are also passage-graves. They are fo ...
called Meayll Circle or Mull Circle. Near the summit of the hill also lie the remains of a World War II
Chain Home Low
Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a British early warning radar system operated by the RAF during World War II. The name refers to CHL's ability to detect aircraft flying at altitudes below the capabilities of the original Chain Home (CH) r ...
RDF station.
Meayll Hill Stone Circle is a unique archaeological monument. It consists of twelve burial chambers placed in a ring, with six entrance passages each leading into a pair of chambers. Sherds of ornate pottery, charred bones, flint tools and white quartz pebbles have been found in the burial chambers. It was built around 3500 BC; it is a site of legends, with diverse stories about haunting.
The word ''Meayll'' means "bald" in
Manx Gaelic
Manx ( or , or ), also known as Manx Gaelic, is a Goidelic language, Gaelic language of the insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language family, itself a branch of the Indo-European language family. Manx is the heritage language of the Manx ...
.
Meayll Circle
Image:Adze.Isle.of.Man.jpg, Three views of an adze, from Meayll Hill
Image:Meayll.Hill.worked.flints.png, Worked flints found on Meayll Hill
Image:Plan.of.Meayll.Hill.stone.circle.png, Plan of the Meayll Stone Circle
Image:Meayll.stone.circle.from.the.east.png, Meayll Stone Circle from the east
Image:Meayll.stone.circle.excavated.cist.png, Meayll Stone Circle, excavated cist
Image:Meayll.stone.circle.excavated.cist.2.png, Meayll Stone Circle, excavated cist (another view)
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360 Panoramas of Meayll Circle
Marilyns of the Isle of Man
Mountains and hills of the Isle of Man
Tourist attractions in the Isle of Man
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