placenames1901 census
79People recorded
14Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Hunter 12
- Gardner 9
- Curran 6
- Woods 6
- Glenn 5
Dooish
An Dubhais
The original census distinguishes this Raphoe North townland from Dooish near Ballybofey.
Recorded locationDooish54.96231° N · 7.53211° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- An Dubhais · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Dooish · English · main form
Place & story
Eighty-eight inhabitants
Dooish had eighty-eight inhabitants in 1911, forty-nine male and thirty-nine female. All sixteen recorded houses were occupied. The comparison columns give 107 inhabitants in 1891 and seventy-nine in 1901, with twenty and fifteen houses respectively. Listed in Raymoghy parish and Raphoe North barony, the townland belonged to Treantaghmucklagh electoral division, Raphoe dispensary district and Strabane Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 1,001 acres and thirty-eight perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Donegal
- Barony
- Raphoe North
- Civil parish
- Raymoghy
- Within
- Treantaghmucklagh
- Coordinates
- 54.96231, -7.53211
- Mapped area
- 4.05 km²
- Logainm ID
- 16567 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
1926 census
60People recorded
13Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Curran 15
- Devenny 13
- Gillespie 6
- Boyce 4
- Burke Dooish 3
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dooish. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Donegal, Table VII, printed page 64 · Census Commissioners for Ireland, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-12-12. How this page was prepared.