In the parish of Bootle is a small inlet of the sea, called
Selker's Bay, where the neighbouring people say, that in calm
weather the sunken remains of several small vessels or galleys can
be seen, which are traditionally stated to have been sunk and left
there on some great invasion of the northern parts of this island,
by the Romans, or the colonizing Northmen.
Various circles of standing stones, or what are generally called
Druidical remains, lie scattered about the vicinity of Black
Combe near the sea shore: several indicating by their name the
popular tradition associated with them, to which the inhabitants
around attach implicit credence, the spot beneath which lie the
ruins of a church that sank on a sudden, with the minister and
all the congregation within its walls. Hence, they say, the name
Kirk-Sank-ton, Kirk-Sunken, Kirk-Sinking, and Sunken Kirks.