FOOTPATH GUIDES, No. 36
THE ISLE OF MAN

By
VINCENT BRENNAN


LONDON
THE SAINT CATHERINE PRESS LTD.
29, GREAT QUEEN STREET, W.C.

[1947]

 

Page
THE DHOON by T.. E. Brown
vii
FOREWORD
by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man, Air Vice Marshal Sir Geoffrey Bromet, K.B.E.,C.B. D.S.O.
viii
PREFACE
ix
I. DOUGLAS HEAD AND PORT SODERICK
1
II. DOUGLAS END OF GREAT CENTRAL VALLEY
3
III. WINDING WALK FROM WINDY CORNER
6
IV. KING ORRY'S GRAVE AND GLEN DHOON
10
V. St. JOHN'S AND GLEN HELEN
13
VI. PEEL TO WILDERNESS OF NIARBYL
17
VII. THREE GLENS — BALLURE, FERN AND AULDYN
20
VIII. ROUND MAUGHOLD HEAD
23
IX. ABOVE RAMSEY
28
X. UP SKYHILL
29
XI. BALLAGLASS AND MONA
33
XII. THE HILLS FROM KIRK-MICHAEL BALLAUGH
35
XIII. ROUND BRADDA HEAD
40
XIV. MULL PENINSULA AND CREGNEISH
41
XV. ROUND ABOUT SANTON
46
XVI. SHORT WALK FROM PORT ERIN
48
XVII. UP LHIATTEE-NY-BEINNEE
49
XVIII. UP SNAEFELL
51

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

RAMSEY
Frontispiece
BALLAGLASS GLEN
facing xii
LAXEY
" 1
PEEL
" 8
TYNWALD HILL
." 17
GLEN HELEN
" 24
ONCHAN
" 33
ST. PATRICK'S ISLE
" 40

This small book (approximately A6 size) was published very shortly post WW2 and may well be the first such publication devoted solely to footpaths in the Island, though earlier guidebooks had included sections on possible walks. Its price, 2s 6d, and its publication date probably explain the lack of any maps and, by modern standards, quite poor illustrations scattered somewhat haphazardly through the text; however it does give a glimpse of the immediate post-war situation when the Island was beginning to regain its mass tourism until cheap package tours in the 1960s signalled the end of this industry.

The author's knowledge of Manx history maybe charitably described as 'lacking'.
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