This district is hilly, and includes the northern portion of the western mountain chain. The district is well watered.
Numerous streams descend from the mountains and find their way to the sea by the various glens.
The coast line north of Glen Mooar is composed of successive layers of clay, gravel, and sand, and, from its exposed position and the action of the tides upon its loose materials, it is rapidly wasting away. Nearly every winter masses of the cliffs are washed down, and their debris swept away by the currents, and spread out along the bed of the neigh-bouring sea, forming those numerous shallows and sandbanks which, especially off the Ramsey coast, render navigation so dangerous. The population, like that of most of the purely agricultural districts, is decreasing. The village of Kirk Michael is the largest agricultural village in the north. In the parish churchyard are fine runic crosses, and the graves of Bishops Wilson, Hildesley, and Cregeen.