Port St Mary, Isle of Man
Historical Description
Port St Mary, a village in Kirk Rushen parish, Isle of Man, on the W side of Poolvash Bay, 4½ miles W of Castletown. It was originally called Purt-noo-Moirrey, is now sometimes called Port-le-Murray; has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O), several good hotels, two banks, a school-house (used as a chapel of ease), and a small harbour, dry at low water, and carries on extensive fishing. A pier has been erected, alongside which large steamers may lie. There are three lighthouses-one on the pierhead, one on the hill (W side of the port), and one at the end of breakwater at the point.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Maps
Online maps of Port St Mary are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)