Dooagh

Dooagh (Irish: Dumha Acha) is a village located on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland.

[citation needed] The road to the west of Dooagh leads over Croghaun Mountain to Keem Strand, which has views over Clew Bay.

A turning off the Keem Road leads to Lough Acorrymore, surrounded by scree slopes and now dammed to supply water for the entire island.

On the road from Dooagh beach towards Lough Corrymore stands Corrymore House, once the home of Captain Charles Boycott,[5] a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agrarian tenants' rights in 1880 gave the English language the verb "to boycott", meaning "to ostracise".

Artist Paul Henry was an active member of Scoil Acla and in 1912 directed the play Casadh an t-Sugain (The Twisting Of The Rope) by Douglas Hyde.

[11] Each July, on the second weekend of the month, the village plays host to a festival which includes traditional Irish currach racing, food, games, music, and an historical exhibition.

Crowds watch the Currach Races at Dooagh Day 2015