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Boyle (/ ˈ b ɔɪ l /; Irish: Mainistir na Búille [8]) is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located at the foot of the Curlew Mountains near Lough Key in the north of the county . Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery , the Drumanone Dolmen and the lakes of Lough Arrow and Lough Gara are also close by.
Robert Boyle FRS [2] (/ b ɔɪ l /; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish [3] natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.
Boyle was born in Lackenagh, near Burtonport, County Donegal, in 1898. His interest in Irish history, particularly Joseph Plunkett in the 1916 Easter Rising, gained him the nickname 'Plunkett'. [2] [3] Boyle's father died when he was 19, and his mother was a devout Irish nationalist who influenced him greatly. [3]
The history continued to be full of incident, in the 1220s Boyle became involved in what was termed ‘The Conspiracy of Mellifont’ when that abbey and its various daughter houses attempted to break away from Norman control.<B.W. O'Dwyer><Letters from Ireland 1228-9> After that was resolved the abbey was attacked on a number of occasions such ...
Boyle (surname), a Scottish and Irish surname of Norman origin; Boyle's law, in physics, one of the gas laws; named after Irish natural philosopher Robert Boyle; Boyle's machine, used in the administration of general anaesthesia to patients; Clan Boyle, a Scottish clan; USS Boyle, U.S. Navy destroyer
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.
Rockingham Estate was a house and estate near Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland covering much of the area which now makes up Lough Key Forest Park. [2] History
The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7. Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.