Dorf · Co. Mayo
The village on the west of Achill, best known for the nearby Keem Bay — with the beach that came back from a 1984 storm, the R319 through it, and the bus that runs six times a day to Westport.
Dooagh (Dumha Acha in Irish) is a village located on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland. It is best known for the nearby Keem Bay, a Blue Flag beach — the bay that is the village’s reason for being, and the walk that gets done out of the village. Dooagh sits on the west of Achill, on the R319 regional road, and it is the village between the bay and the rest of the island.
Between May 2017 and January 2019, Dooagh beach had 300 metres (1,000 ft) of golden sand. Previously, the sand was completely washed away in a storm in 1984, leaving a rocky foreshore that remained until the sand was restored by an unusually high tide in April 2017. The new sandy beach was reported as causing an increase in tourism to the village. Dooagh beach washed away for a second time in early 2019 — the beach is the Atlantic’s to give and take, and the village has learned to live with that.
Dooagh is located on the R319 regional road, and Bus Éireann route 450 (Dooagh—Keel—Westport—Murrisk—Louisburgh) serves the village six times daily on weekdays, three times on Sundays, with connections to Ireland West Airport and Dublin available at Westport. The nearest rail services are at Westport railway station, 62 km away. The bus is the village’s connection: the road, the bus and the connection to the airport, and the village is the place where the west of Achill meets the road.
Dooagh is on the R319 on the west of Achill, a drive from Westport; Keem Bay is a short walk from the village. The village works as the base for the west coast of Achill — the bay in the morning, the beach in the afternoon, and the village in between.
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Dooagh puts Keem Bay, the beach and the coast road all within a walk — the bay is the point.
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The largest island off the west coast, linked to the mainland by a bridge over Achill Sound since 1887 — wild Atlantic headlands, black-pebble bays, a lighthouse with a story, and a landscape that has shaped Irish life for a thousand years.
The 764-metre mountain near Murrisk, traditionally the place where St Patrick fasted — a broad, windswept summit and one of the great walking and pilgrimage places in the country.
“Mouth of the ford” — the town at the mouth of the River Moy near Killala Bay, with the Ox Mountains to the east and the Nephin Mountains to the west, and the Bronze Age Dolmen of the Four Maols behind the station.
“Mouth of the Mullet” — the coastal Gaeltacht town at the isthmus, with the two bays of Blacksod and Broadhaven linked by Carter’s Canal running through the town, and half the population able to speak Irish.