. Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man : towns, mountains, glens, waterfalls, legends, romantic associations, and history : how to reach the island, routes, distances, railways, steamboats, fares, hotel and other accommodation. irteen dial faces, each marked Castletown peoi)le say that the time can be ascertainedby the light of the moon, as well as by that of the sun. Thechurch, St. Mari/s, built in 1826, occupies the site of anolder church erected by Bishop Wilson in 1G98. A smallsquare building near the castle gates was formerly thevlace whore the
. Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man : towns, mountains, glens, waterfalls, legends, romantic associations, and history : how to reach the island, routes, distances, railways, steamboats, fares, hotel and other accommodation. irteen dial faces, each marked Castletown peoi)le say that the time can be ascertainedby the light of the moon, as well as by that of the sun. Thechurch, St. Mari/s, built in 1826, occupies the site of anolder church erected by Bishop Wilson in 1G98. A smallsquare building near the castle gates was formerly thevlace whore the House of Keys assembled. There arc aWesleyan Chaj^el, in Arbory Street, a Primitive MethodistChapel, in Hope Street, and a Boman Catholic Chapd, on tlieGreen. There are two hotels, the Oeorge and the Union, Castle Rushcn. 89 in the towu ; fiud the Barracls, the only ones in the island,where about fifty soldiers are generally quartered, are near thofirst-named hotel. The massive building from -which Castletown takes itsname was, says tradition, built about OjO, by Guthred, orGodred, son and successor of King Orry the famous ; andKing Guthred himself is said to have been buried withinI he walls. ArchiEologists, however—those industrious and t-^, I. CASILI; awful persons who delight to discover anything very old,but are equally delighted if they can prove the allegedantiquity to be unfounded—are not all satisfied that thecastle really dates from the tenth century. The centralkeep has the squa*e form of similar structures erected inthe early Norman times in England, and there are mutilatedwindow? with tracery in the style adopted in the fourteenth 1)0 Guide to the Ide of ]\lan. century. It seems to be probable that a Danish fort occupiedthe site, and was superseded by a stronger structure at alater time. The material used in building the castle was the extremelyhard crystalline limestone abundant in the neighbourhood,and capable of defying the wear and tear of the elem
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