A barnacled outcrop has been put well and truly on the map!

Veteran Manx journalist Terry Cringle has had the rock he played on as a boy on Douglas beach officially named after him.

Around 100 people gathered on the foreshore on Saturday afternoon for a simple ceremony.

The challenge to have it named was taken up by President of Tynwald Noel Cringle after his namesake told readers of his newspaper column how he stood on the rock as a small boy and declared it his.

Terry has fond memories of the now Cringle Rock and the shoreline which was his childhood playground.