Boyle (barony)
{{Short description|Barony (land unit) in County Roscommon, Ireland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Irish English|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Boyle
| native_name = Mainistir na Búille (Irish)
| settlement_type = Barony
| image_skyline = Lough Key from Rockingham Tower - geograph.org.uk - 585687.jpg
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| image_caption = View of Lough Key
| image_map =Baronies of Roscommon.jpg
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| map_caption = Barony map of County Roscommon, 1900; Boyle is coloured pink, in the north.
| subdivision_type = Sovereign state
| subdivision_name = Ireland
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Connacht
| subdivision_type2 = County
| subdivision_name2 = Roscommon
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| area_total_km2 = 328.46
| area_total_sq_mi =126.82
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Boyle ({{Langx|ga|Mainistir na Búille}}{{cite web|url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/219|title=Mainistir na Búille/Boyle|website=Logainm.ie}}) is a barony in the far north of County Roscommon in Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://www.libraryireland.com/topog/B/Boyle-Boyle-Roscommon.php|title=BOYLE, a corporate, market, and post-town, and a parish|website=www.libraryireland.com}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l6BfAAAAcAAJ&q=Boyle+%28barony&pg=PA579|title=Statistical Survey of the County of Roscommon, drawn up under the direction of the Dublin Society. [With an appendix.]|first1=Royal Dublin Society|last1=Weld (Isaac)|first2=Isaac WELD (the|last2=Younger.)|date=28 December 2018|publisher=|via=Google Books}}
Etymology
Boyle barony is named after Boyle town, itself named after Boyle Abbey, which is named after the Boyle River.
Geography
Boyle barony is located in the far north of County Roscommon, separated from County Sligo by Lough Gara, the Curlew Mountains and Lough Arrow, and separated from County Leitrim by Lough Allen and the River Shannon. It contains Lough Key.{{cite web|url=http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000302449|title=A map of Carrowreagh in the barony of Boyle and County of Roscommon as set by Arthur French. A scale of 40 perches to an inch. Surveyed in August 1792. By [illegible] Donleavy. Table of reference showing names of some tenants.|first=Bryan|last=Donlevy|date=1 August 1792|website=catalogue.nli.ie}}
History
Boyle barony loosely corresponds to the ancient Gaelic kingdom of Magh Luirg an Dagda (Moylurg), the "plain of the tracks of Dagda."
In the 1585 Composition of Connacht, Boyle barony was confirmed as the possession of the Mac Diarmada, except for those parts which belonged to the Queen (then Elizabeth I) or the Church of Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/timeline/perrots-composition-barony-boyle|title=Perrot's Composition of the Barony of Boyle|website=www.irelandxo.com}}
List of settlements
Below is a list of settlements in Boyle barony: