Qualla: Kitterland https://qualla.com/kitterland en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kitterland https://qualla.com/kitterland Kitterland: Introduction https://qualla.com/kitterland/ Twenty-two widows. Seventy-seven fatherless children. Those are the numbers the parish of Rushen had to absorb in the first days of 1853, when most of a generation of its fishermen and tradesmen had been blown into the Calf Sound by a single explosion. The cause was a small rocky islet, less than four hectares, lying in the narrow channel between the Isle of Man and the Calf of Man. The Manx call it Famman Kitterland, the Tail of the Rocky Isle. It is uninhabited. It always has been. And yet the parish on the mainland half a mile to the north has never quite stopped reckoning with what happened on it.

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/kitterland-wp/gcse-kitterland-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kitterland: The Brig and the Powder https://qualla.com/kitterland/ On the evening of 27 December 1852 a fierce wind drove the 160-ton brig Lily into the Sound. She was bound from Liverpool for Ambriz in west Africa, her hold full of cotton, cloth, rum, cannon, firearms and gunpowder. She struck the rocks at Kitterland. The master, two ship's boy...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/kitterland-wp/gcse-kitterland-the-brig-and-the-powder.mp3 0:06 2 full Kitterland: The Morning of 28 December https://qualla.com/kitterland/ It came at first light. The gunpowder in the hold detonated. The blast was heard eighteen miles away. In Douglas, sixteen miles to the north-east, houses shook on their foundations. Burning bales of cotton flew hundreds of feet into the air and sailed across the Sound like meteor...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/kitterland-wp/gcse-kitterland-the-morning-of-28-december.mp3 0:06 3 full Kitterland: Folk Memory https://qualla.com/kitterland/ On the Isle of Man, what happened on Kitterland is not a footnote in a maritime register. It is a wound the parish still touches. The disaster shaped a generation of Manx widows, who organised what we would today recognise as one of the earliest community-funded relief schemes on...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/kitterland-wp/gcse-kitterland-folk-memory.mp3 0:06 4 full Kitterland: The Older Legend https://qualla.com/kitterland/ There is a much older story that the Manx tell about the islet, and it has nothing to do with gunpowder. According to legend, the islet takes its name from Baron Kitter, a Norwegian nobleman who hunted the Calf so relentlessly that he wiped out all its game. The people of Mann, f...

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]]> Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/e/kitterland-wp/gcse-kitterland-the-older-legend.mp3 0:06 5 full Kitterland: The Islet Today https://qualla.com/kitterland/ Manx National Heritage owns it now, and Kitterland is wildlife only. Seals haul out on its lower rocks. Guillemots, razorbills and shags nest on the cliffs. The currents in the Sound run hard between Kitterland and the Calf, and the lifeboats from Port St Mary and Port Erin still...

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