page_title: Keppel Gate, Isle of Man
section_title: A18 Snaefell Mountain Road
hierarchical_section_title: Keppel Gate, Isle of Man / A18 Snaefell Mountain Road
caption_attribution_description: English: Marshall Signal Station at Keppel Gate, Onchan Parish, Isle of Man
context_page_description: Keppel Gate, Isle of Man is a location on the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road used for the Isle of Man TT races. It is located between the 4th Milestone and 5th Milestone road-side markers on the primary A18 Snaefell Mountain Road.
context_section_description: The section of the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road from Keppel Gate to Park Llewellyn near the Gooseneck corner, Ramsey was built on former Crown Commons and Commoners allotments mountain grazing land. This land was purchased by the UK Crown following the sale of the feudal rights held by the former Lord of Mann,  the 3rd Duke of Atholl after the Act of Revestment in 1765 and sale of remaining property and manorial rights passed on to his son John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl for £417,144 in 1824.
  The A18 Snaefell Mountain Road reflects typical 19th century highway and railway construction practices. Built over a period of time in the Nineteenth century from a number of horse paths, ancient rights of way of the Regiam Viam (Royal Way)  (archaic|Manx: Bayr-yn-Ree)  and a series of pre-existing carting-tracks and incomplete stone mountain paths which traversed mountain land, peat bogs and hillside sections.  The Keppel Gate section is situated between the 4th milestone and 5th milestone markers on the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road of the small and larger metal Garrow type of markers from the period of James Garrow as Survey-General of Isle of Man Highways and Roads.
  The Disafforesting Commission of 1860  allowed for the sale of parcels of land in 1863 for the purpose of building and fencing of new mountain road sections on Crown Common lands partly financed by the land sales and by a financial contribution from the UK Crown Receiver. The new purpose built Keppel Gate section of A18 Snaefell Mountain Road was constructed in the period from 1864 to 1866. This included a new section of road from near the former Cold Clay Methodist Chapel on the C22 Little Mill Road to "O'Donnell's" corner near to Gob-ny- Geay farm creating  'Telegraph Hill.' A further new section of road including a Cutting near to Gob-ny-Geay farm in the parish of Onchan and by-passed the former 'White Lane' creating the new 'Creg-ny-Baa Corner'  and the nearby 'Keppel Gate Inn' was built on the site (c 1883).  The Ordnance Survey of 1867-8 shows a further section of road built in the period of 1864-66 from the Creg-ny-Baa corner that traversed the steep   'Keppel' or Slieau Ree mountain which dominates this area of the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road  to the site of a former Shepherd's Hut near to Kate's Cottage.  The new 'Keppel Gate Road'  by-passed a section of the former right of way (Manx: Creg-ny-Bayr) now part of public footpath to the Windy Corner on the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road.
  The Crown Commons land at Keppel Gate (known as 'Slieau Lhoost' or the Cairns) of 1,165 acres was purchased from the UK Crown Receiver by the Isle of Man Government for a price of £2,000 in 1933 for the purpose of fencing of the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road and the removal of two mountain gates at Keppel Gate for the 1934 Isle of Man TT races. The remaining Crown Common lands were purchased by the Isle of Man Common Lands Board for the Isle of Man Government in 1947. The tenancy for hill-sheep grazing at Keppel Gate was operated by the Mountain Shepherd G. Rhodes Tate from 1926 including a further grazing tenancy at Beinn-y-Phott mountain and with his wife Gladys Tate occupied Keppel Gate Cottage  or 'Tate's Cottage,'  now known as 'Kate's Cottage.'
caption: TT Race Marshal's Shelter at Keppel Gate with an old stone gate-post
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