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Boyne

US/ˈbɔɪn/ uncommon

noun

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a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts

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Perhaps a modern form of Irish Mac Baoithin (“son of Baoithin”), a nickname from baoth (“foolish”).

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