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Doagh Island

Islet

What is recorded here

Doagh Island is a Donegal peninsula that lost its sea border to rising sand, yet people still call it an isle because the name refuses to leave. Carrickabraghy Castle stands at its northern edge like a broken tooth, watching the same water that drowned seven local fishermen in 1847 and ten sailors from the James Cook in 1841. The rock art nearby is so old it predates written memory, marking a place where humans have kept returning even after the coastline changed beneath them.
Doagh Island is recorded as a islet in County Donegal. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

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