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Does your branch of the Boylan family have any story about the curiously germanic looking black Boylan eagle or raven? The origin seems to be an eagle or raven facing left, with shield, helmet and fleur added at a much later date.
Way back in history, a family member would have been given a grant of arms by the chief herald in return for service to the public; Queen; country or suchlike. Perhaps a Boylan was of some service militarily or participated in
local government (“Bold King of Darty”) in Ireland and this service was rewarded by the high king with a grant of arms. Documentation of exactly why the arms were granted to which Boylan is not available to the Webmaster yet.
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The british lore about ravens leads Joan Burke to an interesting theory: The English monarchs supposedly kept a specified number of ravens. Even to this day, there is a royal birdkeeper. An old prophecy said that if
the English rulers did not keep the ravens birds, the monarchy would fail. Perhaps, there once was a royal raven keeper named Boylan surmises Joan, a friend of the Boylan clan in Pennsylvania, pointing to her source,
a book titled “Birds in Winter”
Lorcan Boylan in the UK believes that the bird in our crest is in fact a phoenix ,a mythical bird rising from its own ashes.
Commercial sites sell family crest articles for example here
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