Doolough (Irish: Dumha Locha, meaning 'black lake')[1] is a coastal townland covering an area of approximately 2,493 acres (10 km2) in the parish of Kiltane, Erris in north County Mayo, Ireland.

For the family's loyalty to the Crown, King James I in 1605 granted Sir Edmund more land in Erris and also a licence to hold a weekly fair at Doolough.

After the Cromwell period in the mid-17th century, the property passed into the hands of the new landlords of Erris - the Shaens, Carters and Binghams.

This allowed the people from Doolough to access the newly burgeoning Belmullet, situated approximately seven miles away.

[10] At the end of the nineteenth century when the Land League was most active, the people of the Doolough area were reputed to have been particularly vehement activists as a result of their poor treatment during the Famine.

Arthur Shaen Bingham was willing to sell some parts of his property provided that he was paid such a price for the sale as he regarded was sufficient.