Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society is a long-standing local history periodical.Volume 9, 1888 is available online here. Extracts of interest are reproduced below:

p68

"[From the Sebergham parish registers:]
1709 Aug.7. Bern Barton and ........ Stanwick, M."
Possibly the son of Barnard Barton (d.1715)?

Sebergham is a village less than 4 miles WSW of Ivegill, the other side of High Head Castle and its chapel:

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p88

"APPENDIX VI.
Schoolmasters of Sebergham, Welton, by Rev. J. Stubbs.
An account of the Schoolmasters who taught at the school near the church first built about the year 1745.
The great Josiah Relph taught about 12 years in the house of William Jackson’s and died 1743.
Mr. Blain an excellent Scholar at Monkhouse Hill afterwards Vicar of Lazonby and Curate of Greystoke.
1. The first in the school Edmund Wells afterwards Curate perpetual of Hayton and Cumwhitton.
2. Thomas Dixon removed to a good free school in Yorkshire Clerk.
3. Samuel Hallifax afterwards Curate of Westward.
4. Benjamin Barton afterwards Curate perpetual at Armathwaite.
5. A Wm Reed afterwards Curate in Yorkshire.
6. Jno Jackson afterwards Vicar of MorIand.
7. A William Tickell afterwards Curate in the South.
8. Jno Relph afterwards Curate in Lancashire.
9. Jno Stubbs for 23 years Master and Assistant Curate of the Parish ; many fine Lads educated in that time.
10. Matthew Stalker appointed Master 1798 Curate of Hesket Forest now.
11th. John Stubbs Assistant Curate 1795 1796 1797 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804. Scurvily dismissed from his Curacy (not by his employer) in the Beginning of the New Year 1805.
I may perhaps be allowed to quote the words of the poet Sanderson concerning Parson Stubbs :
‘His irregular and unclerical conduct at length reached the ears of his diocesan, and he was dismissed from his curacy at Sebergham, but not suspended from the exercise of his functions. His worthy principal (the late Mr. Sheepshanks) parted with his curate with great reluctance, for he had a high opinion of his literary abilities, and of the general integrity of his character. He was also under the necessity of resigning the village Grammar School, which he had long taught with reputation. To him, and to the late Rev. Josiah Relph, Sebergham was indebted for that preeminence in classical literature which long distinguished it; and if the present people of Sebergham be not, like their predecessors, a race of scholars, they may at least in the pride of ancestry, say "Trojani fuimus."'
Sanderson’s Remains p. 100."

pp246-248

"HIGHHEAD & IVEGILL.

Highhead chapel and Ivegill church are in the same township; which from time immemorial has been indiscriminately called Highhead or Ivegill; a township in the parish of Dalston.

The chapel, until 1868 a chapel of ease to Dalston, was originally built in 1358 (Hutchinson, II, 427; B. & N., II, 321). The county historians, however, omit to mention that it was rebuilt in 1682, as is indicated by an inscription over the door:

CHRISTOPHER RICHMOND ESQ
EDWARD HASELL ESQ
ANNO DOMINI 1682.

A tablet on the outside of the east wall has an undated inscription, but evidently belonging to the same time as that over the door :

C R ESQ E H ESQ
CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON CHARLES HALIN ROBERT
HARRISON JOHN MONCKHOUSE HUGH IRELAND
JOHN MASSON ROWLAND SIMPSON THOMAS
BRUMELL THOMAS HARRISON JOHN BRISCOE
GEORGE CLARKE BERN : BARTON JOHN BARTON
H R.

Whellan (p. i66), correctly describing the chapel as “a plain and somewhat mean-looking building”, incorrectly says it was “erected in 1836 upon the site of an older building”. The present vicar of Ivegill and Highhead, Canon Phillips, says it was “not rebuilt but only restored in 1836”, and that old inhabitants remember it as having before that time “an open roof, and seats facing one another”.

The bell, hung in a cot on the west gable, is 14¾ inches in diameter, weight about 90lbs, and bears this inscription:

1635 + AD * IB + ST

The date is preceded by incised marks of “herring-bone” character. The cross is a cross-moline. The stamp between A D and I B is a circle inclosing a cross, and surrounded by projecting lines apparently representing the rays of the sun. The letters A D and I B are plain Lombardic. A D may be intended for anno domini. I B, from what is known of the inhabitants about that time, may stand for John Briscoe, John Barton, or John Bewley. S T, Roman capitals, and larger than the other letters, may be the initials of the bell-founder. Two letters, IW, roughly incised on the crown, may be the initials of some one who at a later period supplied the cast-iron headstock which is rivetted to the crown without canons.

In 1868 the Rev. Arthur Emilius Hulton, who since 1853 had been curate of Highhead, built Ivegill church at his own expense; when a new ecclesiastical parish was formed, consisting of the township of Highhead or Ivegill, with that of Itonfield, taken from Hesket-in-the-Forest, and Middlesceugh, a detached township of St. Mary's, Carlisle. Mr. Hulton died September 13, 1868, having only preached once in the new church, which was consecrated July 22 in the same year.
Ivegill church bell, which hangs in a closed cot on the west gable, and is inaccessible, was most likely new in 1868.
Highhead chapel, which has never been parochial, is now chapel of ease to Ivegill church."