Ward & Lock's descriptive and pictorial guide to the Isle of Man ...

ICastle Rushcn. 89in the towu ; fiud the Barracls, the only ones in the island,where about fifty soldiers are generally quartered, are near thofirst-named hotel.The massive building from -which Castletown takes itsname was, says tradition, built about OjO, by Guthred, orGodred, son and successor of King Orry the famous ;andKing Guthred himself is said to have been buried withinI he walls. ArchiEologists, however—those industrious andt-^,CASILI; KUSUE.V.awful persons who delight to discover anything very old,but are equally delighted if they can prove the allegedantiquity to be unfounded—are not all satisfied that thecastle really dates from the tenth century. The centralkeep has the squa*e form of similar structures erected inthe early Norman times in England, and there are mutilatedwindow? with tracery in the style adopted in the fourteenth