| Boylagh | |
| Native Name: | Baollaigh (Irish) |
| Settlement Type: | Barony |
| Pushpin Map: | Ireland |
| Coordinates: | 54.9°N -20°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Sovereign state |
| Subdivision Name: | Ireland |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Ulster |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Donegal |
| Area Total Km2: | 717.46 |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 277.01 |
Boylagh (Irish: Baollaigh[1]) is a historic barony in County Donegal in Ireland.[2] Patrick Weston Joyce said the name Boylagh comes from the territory of the O'Boyles.[3] It was created along with Banagh when the former barony of Boylagh and Banagh was split in 1791 by an Act of the Parliament of Ireland.[4]
Boylagh is bordered by the baronies of Kilmacrenan to the north east, Rapboe South to the east, and Banagh to the south; to the north and west is the Atlantic Ocean.[5]
The barony contains the following civil parishes:[2]
Settlements in the barony include Annagry,[6] Burtonport,[6] Doochary,[7] Dungloe,[6] Glenties,[6] Kilrean,[7] Lettermacaward,[7] Portnoo,[7] and Ranafast.[6] Other features include the island of Arranmore.[8]
The barony is thus described in the Parliamentary Gazetteer of 1846:[9]
It includes the district of the Rosses in the north, and 12 inhabited islands, besides islets and insulated rocks, off the west coast. The estuaries of the Guidore and the Guibarra, the bays of Dungloe and Tyrenagh, and numerous unnavigable sandy marine inlets, cut its seaboard into a constant and intricate series of variously outlined peninsulae. A great undulating plain or champaign territory of granite constitutes its western district, and exhibits an irksome and almost uniform surface of dark peat, dotted with loughlets or ponds, and slightly variegated with patches of tillage around the cabins. Crovehy, whose summit has an altitude of 1,033 feet above sea-level, is the highest ground in this wild and dreary tract, and the small and utterly sequestered village of Dunglow, is almost the only apology for a town. The eastern district is a mass or congeries of uplands, cloven by glens and ravines This barony comprehends part of the parishes of Inniskeel and Lower Killybegs, and the whole of the parishes of Lettermacward and Templecroan; and its chief villages are Glenties and Dungloe.
From Web site: Irish placenames database . Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs . . en, ga . 11 August 2010. :
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