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Doagh

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Doagh is a civil parish, and also the name of a village and a townland within that civil parish. The largest settlement within the civil parish is the town of Ballyclare.

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DOAGH, a grange and village, in the barony of UPPER-ANTRIM, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, 1½ mile (S.W.) from Ballyclare; the population of the grange is returned with the parish of Ballyeaston; the village contains 49 houses and 195 inhabitants. This place comprises, according to the Ordnance survey, 2304½ statute acres, of which 9½| are under water, 48 woodland, 140 bog and marsh, and the remainder good arable land. The village is pleasantly situated near the Six-mile-water, and adjoining it is Fisherwick Lodge, a hunting seat belonging to the Marquess of Donegal, a very handsome house surrounded with thriving plan tations, which add much to the beauty of the place. The tithes amount to £191.3.7½., of which £127.7. 1. is payable to the impropriator, and the remainder to the vicar.

from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837.

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Description & Travel

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Gazetteers

The transcription of the section for this parish from the National Gazetteer (1868), provided by Colin Hinson.

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Historical Geography

The civil parish of Doagh contained the townlands of:
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Maps

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