following Saturday and a band soon after that, and the person who comes with it is told to bring his portion of milk with him and let him have the strainer with him, with which he will choose the curds until the pool of milk is separated also. From this list we see that in 1400 the main type of farming carried on in Boley was dairy farming together with oats. The 1609 Baronial Map depicts the townland as Boilie. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the townland as Bwoly. The 1665 Down Survey map depicts it as Boyley. William Petty's 1685 map depicts it as Boyler. In the Plantation of Ulster by grant dated 29 April 1611, along with other lands, King James VI and I granted the two polls of Boely to the McGovern Chief, Feidhlimidh Mág Samhradháin. The townland had been part of the McGovern chief's personal demesne for several hundred years before this and it was just a Surrender and regrant confirming the existing title to the then chief. This is confirmed in a visitation by George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes in autumn 1611 when he states that Magauran had his own land given him on this division. An Inquisition of King Charles I held in Cavan town on 4 October 1626 stated that the aforesaid Phelim Magawrane died on 20 January 1622 and his lands including two polls of Boely went to his son, the McGovern chief Brian Magauran who was aged 30 (born 1592) and married. The McGovern lands in Boley were confiscated in the Cromwellian Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 and were distributed as follows- In the Hearth Money Rolls of 1662 there was nobody paying the Hearth Tax in the townland. The 1652 Commonwealth Survey lists the townland as belonging to Lieutenant-Colonel Tristam Beresford and a further confirming grant dated 3 November 1666 was made by King Charles II of England to the aforementioned Sir Tristram Beresford, 1st Baronet which included, inter alia, 2 cartrons of land in Doyly containing 285 acres-3 roods. By grant dated 11 September 1670 from King Charles II of England to said Sir Tristram Beresford, the said lands of Boyly were included in the creation of a new Manor of Beresford. The 1790 Cavan Carvaghs list spells the townland name as Baly. Ambrose Leet's 1814 Directory spells the name as Boley. In the 1825 Registry