Boyle
Mainistir na Búille | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 Market Square | |
  Boyle Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 53°58′23″N 8°18′04″W / 53.973°N 8.301°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Connacht |
| County | County Roscommon |
| Government | |
| • Dáil Éireann | Sligo–Leitrim |
| • EU Parliament | Midlands–North-West |
| Elevation | 83 m (272 ft) |
| Population | 2,915 |
| Time zone | UTC±0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST) |
| Eircode routing key | F52 |
| Telephone area code | +353(0)71 |
| Irish Grid Reference | G797019 |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 1813 | 2,272 | — |
| 1821 | 3,407 | +50.0% |
| 1831 | 3,433 | +0.8% |
| 1841 | 3,235 | −5.8% |
| 1851 | 2,727 | −15.7% |
| 1861 | 3,098 | +13.6% |
| 1871 | 3,347 | +8.0% |
| 1881 | 2,994 | −10.5% |
| 1891 | 2,464 | −17.7% |
| 1901 | 2,477 | +0.5% |
| 1911 | 2,691 | +8.6% |
| 1926 | 2,323 | −13.7% |
| 1936 | 1,727 | −25.7% |
| 1946 | 2,071 | +19.9% |
| 1951 | 1,934 | −6.6% |
| 1956 | 1,835 | −5.1% |
| 1961 | 1,739 | −5.2% |
| 1966 | 1,789 | +2.9% |
| 1971 | 1,939 | +8.4% |
| 1981 | 2,252 | +16.1% |
| 1986 | 2,383 | +5.8% |
| 1991 | 2,197 | −7.8% |
| 1996 | 2,222 | +1.1% |
| 2002 | 2,205 | −0.8% |
| 2006 | 2,522 | +14.4% |
| 2011 | 2,588 | +2.6% |
| 2016 | 2,568 | −0.8% |
| 2022 | 2,915 | +13.5% |
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Boyle (/ˈbɔɪl/; 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. As of 2022[update], the population of the town was 2,915.[1] The town is in a civil parish of the same name and in the barony of Boyle.[8]
- ^ a b c "Census Interactive Map – Towns: Boyle". Census 2022. Central Statistics Office. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements Boyle". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
- ^ "Census for post 1821 figures". Archived from the original on 9 March 2005. Retrieved 1 April 2008.
- ^ "Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website". www.histpop.org. Archived from the original on 7 May 2016.
- ^ "Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency - Census Home Page". Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
- ^ Lee, J. J. (1981). "On the accuracy of the Pre-famine Irish censuses". In Goldstrom, J. M.; Clarkson, L. A. (eds.). Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
- ^ Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac (November 1984). "New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700-1850". The Economic History Review. 37 (4): 473–488. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x. hdl:10197/1406. Archived from the original on 4 December 2012.
- ^ a b "Mainistir na Búille/Boyle". Placenames Database of Ireland. Government of Ireland - Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Archived from the original on 23 July 2018. Retrieved 23 July 2018.