Tynwald Day

Tynwald Hill is always quoted as being at this location in St. Johns (the Wikipedia article does the same). Yet, I recall my father saying that the original location was in fact near St. Lukes chapel at the Baldwins, and there certainly is a mound there. Perhaps it is an old burial mound though, and not the original Tynwald Hill. 

Update: just done a bit of Googling, and interestingly enough, perhaps my father was right. There are references to "a Tynwald Hill near Keill Abban which may have been a yet earlier place of assembly". It’s by a place (Algare) that translates as "Ridge of Justice". There’s also this reference to an excursion in 1900 to this feature, and the reference states that it was the old Tynwald Hill. And it is interesting that if you look at the map of the Island, this spot is pretty damn close to being in the centre of the Island – much closer than St. Johns turns out to be. It’s also on the "Royal Road" of the Island – the path that from the earliest times ran from the South of the Island to the North.