MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION AT PORT ERIN. 



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with the Round Tower in the distance, is from a photo- 

 graph by Mr. Gr. B. Oowen. 



Eushen Abbey, on the Silverburn, in the village of 

 Ballasalla and Parish of Malew, dates from the twelfth 

 century, Ivo, Abbot of Furness, having in 1134 received 

 a grant of lands for the purpose from King Olave. 

 Cumming thinks there may have been some sort of a 

 religious house earlier, though there is no notice of 

 buildings in the Chronicon Mannise (kept by the Monks 

 at the Abbey) till 1192, when it is recorded that the monks 

 were transferred to Douglas for four years, during which 



Fig. 42. View of Peel Castle on St. Patrick's Isle, from the town. 

 Photo, by G. B. Cowen. 



they were engaged in enlarging the accommodation at 



Eushen. The Church was not completed and consecrated 



till 1257. According to Chaloner's drawings, made in 



the seventeenth century, there were five towers of rude 



masonry, with square-headed openings. The only decided 



architectural detail is a plainly chamfered arch in the 



Church tower, cne apparently of an arcade running North 



from the tower, three others now in the Grammar School, 



which was the old Church of St. Mary, Castletown, 



* Yn Lioar Mamiinagh, III., p. 405. 



