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About Boyle

Boyle, Mainistir na Búille in Irish, is a town in County Roscommon, 92 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N4, N61 and R294. The map gives it 3,319 buildings and 25 named streets, with 118 places named on them in 75 kinds, and 120 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.

Where
92 km north-east of Galway, 151 km from Dublin
Position
53.9723° N, 8.3013° W, 83 m above sea level
Area
10.82 km²
Roads
N4, N61 and R294
Governed
Roscommon County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
3,319 buildings, 25 streets, 118 named places in 75 kinds
County Roscommon, Boyle Town Clock.
County Roscommon, Boyle Town Clock.·Z thomas, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Babes, bikes and buckets on Barrack Street in Boyle!
Babes, bikes and buckets on Barrack Street in Boyle!·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Boyle in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the 40th century to 1590. That is not a history of Boyle, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the 40th century1590Carrowkeel neolithic siteBallinafad Castle
The twelfth century
  • 1161Boyle AbbeyChurches · 350 m from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The sixteenth century
  • 1590Ballinafad CastleCastles · 6.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The 40th century

County Roscommon since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

253,59151,89770,25918412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 120 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N4, N61 and R294 running through Boyle.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 8 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Boyle FET Centre and Abbey Community College.

Questions people ask

Where is Boyle?
In County Roscommon, in the province of Connacht, 92 km north-east of Galway and 151 km from Dublin, on the N4, N61 and R294.
How big is Boyle?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,319 buildings, 25 named streets and 118 named places, which by building count makes it the 2th largest of the 35 settlements this site covers in County Roscommon.
What is there to see in Boyle?
120 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Connaght Rangers, King House and King William Memorial.
How do you get to Boyle?
8 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Iarnród Éireann / Irish Rail and TFI Local Link Longford Westmeath Roscommon. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Roscommon grown or shrunk?
The census counted 253,591 people in the county in 1841 and 70,259 in 2022.
3,319
buildings on the model
25
named streets
118
named places
75
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q1124843). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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