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Fiolair ; Welsh and Breton, Hr.) The name ‘Cronk Urleigh,’ 
formerly ‘Renurling,’ applied to a natural knoll near Kirk 
Michael, probably refers to the Eagle as a device of the 
Stanleys, Lords of Man, the place having been used for a 
Tynwald assembly in the fifteenth century. 
Bishop Wilson, early in the eighteenth century, says 
that the island had then ‘one airy of eagles,’ This state- 
ment seems to be unconfirmed, and not even copied by 
all the many succeeding writers who describe the natural 
productions of Man, until Train (1845) supplements it as 
follows: ‘The eagle had his eyrie in the fastness of 
Snafield (ste) in the time of Bishop Wilson.’ No mountain 
could be more unsuitable for the nesting place of an Eagle 
than the smooth and grass-clad Snaefell, and though the 
phrase used by Train might be extended to include the 
often rocky and precipitous ravines of Sulby Glen, such 
as the Cluggid, no weight need be given to the addition, 
unsupported by details, of this unreliable writer. | 
In 1865 Mr. A. G. More stated (Distribution of Birds in 
Great Britain), under heading of the above species: ‘ Mr. 
J. F. Crellin has ascertained that a pair of Eagles used to 
build in the high cliffs at the south end of the Isle of Man ; 
none have bred since this pair was destroyed in a snow- 
storm about fifty years ago.’ 
To this I am enabled (by Mr. Moffat’s kindness) to add, 
in amplification, some extracts from Dr. Crellin’s letters, 
On June 17 (or 19), 1862, he writes that he hopes soon 
to get some information respecting the Sea Eagle, as he 
intends going to the Calf of Man on the first fine day. 
After returning from Castletown to Orrisdale he writes on 
19th July: ‘I have, I believe, got all the information I am 
likely to get respecting the Sea Eagle. The man to whom 
I alluded in one of my letters happened to be at home one 
evening that I went to see him. MHe told me that he 
