Qualla: Laxey https://qualla.com/laxey 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: Laxey https://qualla.com/laxey Laxey: Introduction https://qualla.com/laxey/ The name means salmon. Laksaa, in Manx Gaelic, shares its root with the Norwegian laks, the Swedish lax, and the German Lachs - all words descended from the same Old Norse stem brought to the island by Viking settlers a thousand years ago. The river that gives Laxey its name still runs from the high ground at Snaefell down through the village to the sea, and salmon still run up it. The village around 1,650 people sits on the east coast of the Isle of Man, seven miles northeast of Douglas along the A2. It looks small. It is small. But Laxey punches well above its weight: a giant waterwheel, a Neolithic burial chamber in a private cottage garden, two heritage railways meeting at the same station, and a beach where you can stand and look across the Irish Sea toward Cumbria.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/laxey-wk/gcsu-laxey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Laxey: Why the Wheel Is Here https://qualla.com/laxey/ From the 18th century, Laxey was a metal-mining village. The geology around the Glen Mooar valley made it possible to drill horizontally into the mountainside rather than sinking vertical shafts, which is engineering-speak for 'much easier to drain.' The horizontal entries are ca...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/laxey-wk/gcsu-laxey-why-the-wheel-is-here.mp3 0:06 2 full Laxey: King Orry's Grave https://qualla.com/laxey/ On Ballaragh Road, in a private cottage garden but open to free public access, lies a chambered burial tomb four to five thousand years old. It is called King Orry's Grave, after a 12th-century legend. King Orry is mythical, but he is based on a real person: Godred Crovan, an 11t...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/laxey-wk/gcsu-laxey-king-orrys-grave.mp3 0:06 3 full Laxey: The Mountain Railway https://qualla.com/laxey/ Laxey station is the meeting point of two heritage railways and the start of a third. The Manx Electric Railway runs hourly from Douglas Derby Castle up the coast to Ramsey, mid-March through October, and stops at Laxey for the connection. The Snaefell Mountain Railway departs th...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/laxey-wk/gcsu-laxey-the-mountain-railway.mp3 0:06 4 full Laxey: Cashtal yn Ard and the Old North Coast https://qualla.com/laxey/ About four miles north of Laxey, on the hill above Glen Mona, lies Cashtal yn Ard - 'Castle of the Heights.' It is a chambered burial tomb roughly 4,000 years old and about 130 feet long, oriented east-west, giving its unknown Neolithic occupants a view of the farmlands below. So...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/u/laxey-wk/gcsu-laxey-cashtal-yn-ard-and-the-old-north-coast.mp3 0:06 5 full Laxey: When the Race Comes Through https://qualla.com/laxey/ Laxey village sits on the A2 coast road, and during TT fortnight in late May and June the A2 stays open. The mountain section higher up, the A18, does not. Throughout the fortnight, the Mountain Road is one-way southbound from Ramsey down to Creg-ny-Baa approaching Douglas, with ...

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