On the first Sunday in August Manx country people climbed the highest hills in crowds, Snaefell in the north and Barrule in the south. Others visited the island’s healing wells, such as St Catherine’s Well at Port Erin. Dyer drew on Train, Waldron and Bennet’s Sketches of the Isle of Man.
Up Snaefell and Barrule on the first Sunday of August
the first Sunday on or after 1 August · Isle of Man
No longer kept
On that day they crowd in great numbers to the tops of the highest hills, in the north to the summit of Snafeld, and in the south to the top of Barule.
From Dyer's British Popular Customs, p. 348. Read the original
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