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Boyle
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An Irish surname, also the name of a town in County Roscommon, Ireland.
"Robert Boyle was a pioneering Irish scientist."
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Etymology
Anglicized from Irish Ó Baoithghill, possibly from baoth ("vain, foolish") and geall ("pledge").