Obs. Also 6 bolye. [ad. Irish buaile cattle-fold, or its deriv. buailidh; deriv. of bo cow, or ad. L. bovīle.] A temporary fold or enclosure used by the Irish who wandered about with their herds in summer; a company of people and their cattle thus wandering about. Hence Spenser has Booling for the practice.
1596. Spenser, State Irel. (1809), 82. All the Tartarians and … Scythians, live in hordes; being the very same that the Irish boolies are, driving their cattle with them, and feeding only on their milk and white meats. Ibid., 494. By this custom of booling there grow in the meantime many great enormities unto that commonwealth.
1610. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. x. 25. In the North of Ireland, they do with much conuenience, by kreating [= creaghting] & shifting their Boolies from seed-fur til haruest bee inned, both depasture & soile their grounds.
1846. W. H. Maxwell, Capt. Blake, I. vii. The tenants of the lonely bouillie. (Bouillies, are summer bivouacs, used by shepherds when depasturing their flocks in the mountains.)
