llouse of ljme and stone :ctaugher) in which he and his family dwelleth." In the year 1628 Turlogh Roe O'Boyle found himself for a time in Lifford Gaol ·as a result of the machinations of his renegade butler. Tbe information whioh: this spy gave Dublin Castle has many interesting observations, and from which it would appear that O'Boyle was regarded, by Irish exiles on the Continent, as the foremost Catholic gentleman in Tirconail. The information also reveals . tl:at O'Boy:e was married to one Of the Maguire ladies of Fermanagh and that one of his brothers was then resident in Scotland. The O'Clery Genealogies give these brothers' names as Teig Og. Niall and. Felim. It ·would also appear trom the spy's · deposition that Turlogl: Roe O'Boyle had managed to retrieve the .ancient family residence at Killtorish for he was residing there while the treacherous butler was in bis service. The Loyalist Despositions of 1641-164:~ for County Donegal mention that Tudogh Roe O'Boyle. his son. TurJogh Og, and his brother, Teig Og, were amongst ihe fo~emost rebels in the County. A Turlogh O'Boylc (either the father or the son) of Ballymore. and a Hugh O'Donnell of Ramelton we.re the County Donegal members of the Catho1ic Confederate Parliament, held in Kilkenny City in 1647. One of them was also reported amongst the \vound~ and dead after the ·Battle iof Scariffholes in 1650. Both fat,ber and son, however, survived /the wars and in the confisciition I . which followed 'furlogh .· Hoe O'Bciyle lost all his lands hi the 'l1arony of Kilmacrenan. In the Cromwelian Census of 1659 'furJogh O'Boyle is set down as Titalado for the five quarte!·s of Kiltoorish, while Teig Og O'Boyle was the reside·nt claimant for :Vlaas, also in the pa:::iE!'! of iinniskeel. TheY a1so figure in the Hearth Money Rolls of 1665 as payine: tax for how=es in these lwo townlands. O'Harl's Irish Pedigrees would have us believe that the younger Turlogh O'Boyle was the grandfather of an Ameri.Can Naval officer named Boyle of the last century! From this sketc:h of the O"Boyles' association w i t h Faugher it will be seen that neither the father nor the son did meet with violent-death at tl!.e hands of Si:'. Miles :\lac !::weency. er for that matter l1is son, Donogh Mor. for both MacSwcenevs were dead \1.v 1641 i.e.. t\venty years or more . hcJo.:-e the O'Bovles of Faughcr fade from our ken. Everv irenuinr. tradition. we are told has within itself some atoms of fact. w('. wonder whee these are to be found in the story of Turlogh Og O'Boyle and Eileen· Mac Sweeney?
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