placenamesDooleeg
Dumha Liag
Dooleeg’s peatland contains recorded stone monuments, while personal recollections link the locality to Oweninny’s industrial workforce.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- Dumha Liag · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dooleeg · English · main form
Place & story
Stones in Dooleeg More
The archaeological appendix to the Oweninny Phase 3 environmental report lists three standing stones and a stone row in Dooleeg More. The row, MA028-006, comprises three large boulders over a length of 5.1 metres on a slight rise in the peatland. The catalogue records their arrangement but supplies neither an excavated date nor a demonstrated ritual purpose. [2]
An engineer from Dooleeg
The catalogue of Maurice O’Keeffe’s 2009 Bord na Móna oral-history collection describes Tom O’Donnell as having grown up in Dooleeg. He joined the Oweninny works in 1954 and transferred to Dublin in 1956, later designing bog railways, bridges and roads and qualifying as a chartered engineer. [3]
Calling the doctor
In a Western People interview, Dr Mick Loftus recalled that calls from the Bellacorick works reached him through Dooleeg Post Office, Crossmolina and the Ballina exchange. His account gives the post office a specific place in the communications chain serving workers on the bog and at the power station. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina
- Coordinates
- 54.10187, -9.48302 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1167044 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dooleeg. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Oweninny Wind Farm Phase3 EIAR,Appendix18.1,SMR/RMP sites,pp4–6 · Bord na Móna; archaeological assessment citing National Monuments Service SMR
- Irish Life and Lore,Bord na Móna Collection,2009,p4:TomO’Donnell · Maurice O’Keeffe
- Dr Mick Loftus:a life well lived in the service of his community · Western People; interview with Dr Mick Loftus
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.