Port St Mary The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has had a lifeboat and station in Port St Mary since 1896. The current lifeboat, the Gough Ritchie II, lies to a permanent floating mooring inside the outer breakwater. The village is home to the Port St Mary Golf Links, the Island's sole 9-hole golf course, and also , a primary school opened in 1993-1994. The Isle of Man Yacht Club is also based at Port St Mary harbour. Chapel Bay, a sandy beach in the upper part of the village, is used for recreation and bathing in the summer months. Port St Mary Town
Castletown, Isle of Man to the west Port St Mary and Port Erin. The older parts of the town are largely built of local grey limestone. At Scarlett, a short distance to the south of the town, there are the remains of an ancient volcano and various other features such as fossils and thick sheets of limestone. The A3 road connects Castletown with Ramsey via St John's, while the A5 road (also known as New Castletown Road as opposed to the Old Castletown Road which takes a more rural route nearer the coast) connects the town with Douglas to the north-east and Port Erin