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Doagh

Dumhach

Samuel Lewis places a hunting residence beside the village near the Six Mile Water.

Recorded locationDoagh54.75032° N · 5.99628° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie

The name

dumha(grave-)mound, sand-bank

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Dumhach · Irish · main form
  • Doagh · English · main form

Place & story

A village and its neighbouring estate

Lewis’s 1837 account identifies Fisherwick Lodge as a hunting seat of the Marquess of Donegal, adjoining Doagh village and surrounded by plantations. He places the village near the Six Mile Water and records forty-nine houses with 195 inhabitants. His entry treats Doagh as both a village and a larger grange, whose population was returned with Ballyeaston parish; the village figure should therefore be kept separate from that wider district. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Antrim
Civil parish
Doagh Grange
Coordinates
54.75032, -5.99628 (approximate)
Mapped area
2.54 km²
Logainm ID
61501 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Doagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Doagh, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-08-23. How this page was prepared.