Ballure, Isle of Man

Ballure
Manx: Rhumsaa
Ballure Ballure shown within the Isle of Man
Parish	Ramsey
Sheading	Ayre
Crown dependency	Isle of Man
Post town	ISLE OF MAN
Dialling code	01624
Police	Isle of Man
Fire	Isle of Man
Ambulance	Isle of Man
List of places Isle of Man

Coordinates: 54°18′54″N 4°22′26″W / 54.31502°N 4.374004°W / 54.31502; -4.374004

Ballure (Manx: Rhumsaa) is a town that lies a 3/4 mile southeast of Ramsey on the Isle of Man. A stop on the Manx Electric Railway which runs through it is the Ballure Halt (or Ballure Glen) station.

Arthur William Moore reported there was a sighting of the glashtin or Cabbyl-Ushtey, a water-horse of Manx legend at Ballure Glen in 1859^[1]

Isle of Man

List of places in the Isle of Man

Towns	Castletown Douglas (capital) Peel Ramsey

Villages	Andreas Ballabeg Ballasalla Ballaugh Ballure Barregarrow Braaid Colby Cregneash Crosby Dalby Derbyhaven Foxdale Glen Maye Glen Vine Laxey Niarbyl Newtown Onchan Port Soderick Port St Mary Port Erin Ronague St John's Strang Sulby Tromode Union Mills

Sheadings	Ayre Glenfaba Garff Michael Middle Rushen

Parishes	Andreas Arbory Ballaugh Braddan Bride German Jurby Lezayre Lonan Malew Marown Maughold Michael Onchan Patrick Rushen Santon

References

↑ Moore, Arthur William (1891), "Chapter IV: Hobgoblins, monsters, giants, mermaids, apparitions, &c." (google), The Folk-Lore of the Isle of Man (Douglas: Brown & Son), p. 52- , p.53

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