Boyne

boin, a small river of eastern Ireland. It rises in County Kildare and empties into the Irish Sea about thirty miles north of Dublin. It is memorable in Irish history for a victory gained by the Orangemen under William III, July 1, 1690, over the Stuart forces under James II. Over 1,500 of King James' troops were killed. The battle was final. In 1736 a monument 150 feet high was erected by the Orangemen on the site of the battlefield to commemorate their victory. See Orangemen