of Freeholders for County Cavan there were four freeholders registered in Boley- Hugh Banan, Patrick Smyth, Michael Smyth and Hugh Smyth. They were all Forty-shilling freeholders holding a lease for lives from their landlord John Foster. The Tithe Applotment Books for 1827 list ten tithepayers in the townland. In 1833 one person in Boley was registered as a keeper of weapons- Robert Harper, who owned a gun, pistol, sword and bayonet. The Boley Valuation Office Field books are available for 1839–1840. Griffith's Valuation of 1857 lists twenty three landholders in the townland. Boley School The Second Report from the Commissioners of Irish Education Inquiry dated 1826 stated that Peter Magauran, a Catholic, was the headmaster of the school which was a pay school with a salary of £16 per annum. It was under the patronage of the London Hibernian Society. The schoolhouse was a mud cabin which cost £9 to erect. There were 132 pupils of which 115 were Roman Catholics and 17 Church of Ireland. 66 were boys and 66 were girls. There was also a night school held in the same building under the same headmaster. It had 60 pupils of whom 57 were Catholic and 3 Church of Ireland. All were male so it was probably for adults. It was closed before 1900. Killyran School The book Bawnboy and Templeport History Heritage Folklore by Chris Maguire gives the following description of Killyran Protestant school, which was actually located in the townland of Boley, not Killyran - Killyran National School Teachers 1826-1966:- Mrs. Coffey; Miss Abraham; Miss Stafford; Master Smyth; Mrs. Alicia Whyte; Miss Helena Pringle; Miss Emma Corbett; Miss Ivy Hall; Miss Frances Rountree; Miss Esme Walpole; Miss Audrey Byers; Miss Iris Neill; Miss Audrey Kells; Mrs. Lindsay. The 1874 Report from the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland state that Killyran School, Roll No. 9969, had 81 pupils, 51 boys and 30 girls. In 1890 there were 63 pupils. The 1938 Dúchas Folklore collection from Killyran School is available at- A description of Killyran School in the 1930s by a schoolboy is viewable online. Census In the 1901 census of Ireland, there are fourteen families listed in the townland. In the 1911 census of Ireland, there are only eleven families listed in the townland. Antiquities The chief structures of historical interest in the townland are A Neolithic dual court-tomb Killyran School Blackwater Bridge References External links