Manannan mac Lir
- Item sets
- Folklore
- Name
- Manannan mac Lir
- Description
- The old god of the sea who gave the island its name and protected it with his cloak of mist. Before the saints came, the Manx people paid rent to Manannan in rushes, carried to the summit of South Barrule each midsummer. The Metrical History records the tribute: a bundle of coarse meadow grass from every landholder, paid yearly. Some still climbed South Barrule in darkness with bundles of rushes, paying rent to the old god while the Christian island slept. A farm adjoining Tynwald grounds held its tenure tithe-free on condition of providing rushes for the ceremony. The roads to Tynwald carried his name: Bayr ny Managhan, Manannan's Road. The midsummer gathering, the constitutional ceremony, and the rent to the sea god all converged at the same sacred site.
- Manx Name
- Mannanan Mac y Leir
- Period
- Celtic and Pre-Norse Period
- Norse Kingdom of Mann and the Isles
- The Stanley Lordship
- The Trading Era
- Type
- Legend
- Deity
- Source
- Train, Metrical History
- Moore, Folk-lore (1891)
- Kneen, Proceedings IoM NHAS (1935-37)