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| BOYLE ABBEY, COUNTY ROSCOMMON.-These venerable monastic remains stand on the banks of the river Boyle, close to the important town of that name, in the county of Roscommon. The abbey was built by one of the princes of Connought early in the Twelfth century, and remained intact until the terreibel Elizabethan wars, called by the English, "the Great Rebellion of Tyrone and Tyrconnell," led to its destruction about the year 1601. |
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