Boyle
Boyle is a market town in County Roscommon in northwest Ireland, with a population in 2016 of 2568. It's at the foot of the Curlew Mountains near Lough Key; its main attractions are King House, two ruined abbeys, and water activities on the lough.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,570 residents
- Description: human settlement in County Roscommon, Ireland
- Also known as: “Boyle, County Roscommon”, “Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland”, “Boyle, Ireland”, “Boyle, Roscommon”, and “Boyle, Roscommon, Ireland”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Boyle Abbey and Boyle railway station.
Boyle Abbey
Photo: Digital Eye, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Boyle Abbey is a ruined Cistercian friary located in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland. It was founded by Saint Malachy in the year 1161 but not consecrated until 1218.
Boyle railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boyle railway station serves the town of Boyle in County Roscommon, Ireland.
Holy Trinity Abbey
Ruins
Holy Trinity Abbey is a former medieval Premonstratensian priory and National Monument located in Lough Key, Ireland. Holy Trinity Abbey is situated 3½ km northeast of Boyle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballinafad.
Ballinafad
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballinafad is a village in the south of County Sligo in the west of Ireland. The village overlooks Lough Arrow, and is itself overlooked by the ruins of Ballinafad Castle. Ballinafad is situated 6 km north of Boyle.
Boyle
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Roscommon, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.9723° or 53° 58′ 20″ northLongitude
-8.3013° or 8° 18′ 5″ westPopulation
2,570Elevation
73 metres (240 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE BOYOpen location code
9C5HXMCX+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 52250940OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Boyle” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بويل”
- Basque: “Boyle”
- Catalan: “Boyle (Roscommon)”
- Catalan: “Boyle”
- Cebuano: “Boyle”
- Chinese: “博伊爾”
- Danish: “Boyle”
- Dutch: “Boyle”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بويل”
- French: “Boyle”
- Georgian: “ბოილი”
- German: “Boyle”
- Hebrew: “בויל”
- Irish: “Mainistir na Búille”
- Italian: “Boyle”
- Japanese: “ボイル”
- Polish: “Boyle”
- Russian: “Бойл”
- Serbian: “Бојл”
- Slovenian: “Boyle”
- Spanish: “Boyle, Condado de Roscommon”
- Spanish: “Boyle”
- Swedish: “Boyle, Irland”
- Swedish: “Boyle”
- Welsh: “Boyle”
- Western Frisian: “Boyle (plak)”
- Western Frisian: “Boyle”
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