From Ballyboyle to Corglass... a Boyle family's story
Part 2 - Corglass
Navigating the site
At the bottom of each page you'll find three buttons like these:
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The Signpost button will take you back to this page, from where you can choose to go next. The Back button will take you to the preceding page on the site (which may not be the one you were looking at last). the third button will take you to the next page. Text highlighted like this will take you to another page on the site or to an external site.
Or you can go direct to the Chapter that interests you by clicking on a main menu button at the top of the page, like this:
Signposts Part 2
Corglass: our immediate forebears
The people we can put names to over the last two hundred years - the Boyles of Corglass and their relations, the Higginses, Bradys and Hartes come alive from the documentary traces they have left behind. Meet them here.
Saints, Successes, Soldiers and Sinners
There are always a few people who through determination, good or bad luck, or force of circumstances create a larger than life impression on their contemporaries. There are a few of these on the fringes of our family who add spice and interest to the story.
References: Books and articles mentioned in the story are listed here.
Contact: If you have a story to add, if you've spotted an error, or just want to get in touch, do it here
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Ballyboyle: Ancient Ancestors
Who was the first Boyle? What role did our ancestors play in history? Where did they live? What do we know about the Ó Baoighill sept from the year 1000 to 1700? It's all here.
Sources and citations - acknowledgements and apologies
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I'm not a trained historian (or even an untrained one) and have only a superficial familiarity with the primary texts and range of material that a professional would use to construct a story such as this website aspires to. I have been made keenly aware of the limits of my understanding when trying to draw some conclusions or clarify the sequence of events. I have no doubt that I will have made some elementary mistakes or barked up the wrong tree quite often. I would therefore be forever grateful to any readers who let me know about any errors of fact or interpretation that they find in these pages.
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The content of this website is the result of many years of collecting bits and pieces of information, conversations with friends and relations, reading books and articles and internet surfing, but it is not a work of original scholarship and it relies heavily on the labours of others. More often than not, especially in the early years, I didn't keep detailed records of where I obtained information. Initially, for my own interest, with no intention of disseminating it more widely, I copied stuff, and now I can't remember where I copied it from. There's very little original historical research here, but there's quite a lot of (unintentional) plagiarism!
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All I can say is that I haven’t made it up, therefore it must have come from somewhere else, but I can’t always say from where. More recently, I have tried to pay more attention to my sources, and some credits are noted in the text, and listed in the references but there's still a lot of unattributed content.
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However, if any reader recognises some passages or images as being ‘lifted’ from elsewhere without acknowledgement, I’d be grateful if they could let me know and I will gladly and gratefully acknowledge the correct authorship.