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I'm from Carrigart, Co. Donegal in Ireland and can testify that there are plenty of Boyce's in that area. Philip Boyce us as you said is the Bishop of Raphoe, although he's from Downings not Carrigart.
My surname in Gaelic is Ó Buí. (Translates as Yellow). This may also be written Ó Buadhaigh. (Translates as Victorious)
It would seem that this name has been anglicized as Boyce. It is of note that the Boyce's of Donegal and Derry are for the most part of Gaelic-Irish origin.
Boyce is also an English name of Norman origin derived from bois, a wood. There is no doubt that some of the Irish Boyce's today are descended from English settlers. They could be found in Co. Meath and Co. Limerick as far back as the fourteenth century (at first under the name de Boys) down to the time of the Cromwellian settlement.
So it would seem that, being from Donegal, my ancestors were Irish and that further south the Boyce ancestors were predominantly English Normans.
regards
Kevin Boyce
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