Boylan Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Boylan Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Boylan

The Boylan family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Boylan and Boyan are Irish names derived from a Gaelic sept of Oriel, which arose originally from the same stock as the O'Flanagans of Fermanagh who were in early medieval times located in a widespread territory stretching from Fermanagh to Louth. Later they were reduced by the McMahons, but still retained the greater part of the Barony of Daltry in County Monaghan. O'Dugan in his fourteenth century 'Topographical Poem' praises them for their horsemanship and comments on their blue eyes, calling them 'the bold Kings of Dartry'. They are still more numerous in the Monaghan, Cavan and Meath area than elsewhere. In Gaelic the name is O' Baoigheallain.