Ballabeg dates to at least 1643 when a Ballabegg was recorded on the Castle Rushen Manorial Roll, under the ownership of Furness Abbey.
William Wordsworth visited on a number of occasions and referred to it in his famous 1805 autobiographical poem The Prelude, whilst Turner made numerous etchings of the Abbey.
It was colonised directly by monks from Furness Abbey in Lancashire in 1180, along with some of the monks from Erinagh.
Furness Abbey, a cistercian monastery formally known as St. Mary of Furness on the outskirts of Barrow-in-Furness, England
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Newbarns covers an area of 2.78 square kilometres and lies east of Abbey Road, encompasing Furness Abbey in its entirety, Barrow Sixth Form College and St. Bernard's Catholic High School.