Doagh Graveyard, Station Road, Located near 1 Village Green, Doagh, Ballyclare, Co. Antrim, BT39 0UD

Doagh Graveyard is an enclosed burial ground located at the periphery of Doagh village, west of the B59 road between Doagh and Ballyclare. The rectangular graveyard is laid out on a grid pattern and contains numerous nineteenth- and twentieth-century gravestones and family plots, many enclosed by ornate wrought-iron railings. Two enclosed table tombs are present, one featuring wrought-iron railings over a rubble stone plinth.

The graveyard is bounded by a rubble stone wall with rubble coping, except for the road-facing eastern elevation which is partially rendered with soldier-coursed coping. Access is via a cast-iron gate at the southeast corner, supported on square basalt gate piers with yellow brick quoins and pyramidal concrete caps. Mature trees are planted within the boundary to the east, with open countryside extending to the west.

The earliest legible gravestone is that of Anne Ferguson, who died on 5 March 1829, though many other illegible markers appear to be of earlier date. The site is recorded on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1833 and was valued at £3 11s 0d in the Townland Valuation of 1838. It does not appear on the second edition Ordnance Survey map of 1857 but is mentioned in the Griffiths Valuation as being under the ownership of the recently deceased Mrs Graham.

The graveyard contains the rubble stone remains of the medieval St Mary's Church, positioned off-centre to the north. This parish church dates from the thirteenth century or possibly earlier, and may occupy the site of an early monastic settlement dating from the sixth century. The earliest documented reference to St Mary's, Doagh, is from 1251, when Isaac, Bishop of Connor, placed the church under the care of the clergy of Muckamore Abbey. It remained under their authority until the Dissolution in 1537–1539. The church fell into decay sometime after the mid-sixteenth century, leaving the parish without a church for some years.

The enclosing boundary wall and gate screen were erected in 1873 through public subscription. A meeting was held on 15 March 1873, presided over by the Reverend Francis Charles Young, Rector of the Parish (1864–1886), at which it was unanimously agreed to build a permanent wall around the graveyard. A committee of twenty persons was appointed to oversee the work, with Thomas Wilson as treasurer and William Lawson as secretary. The project attracted 170 subscribers and raised a total of £93 3s 0d. The construction was carried out by A. Davidson and Bros., who built the east, north and west walls (106 Irish perches at 7s 6d per perch), provided coping for 20 linear Irish perches at 10s per perch, and constructed the front wall and pillars with coping stone for £15. The cast-iron gate and lock were supplied by Mr Riddle of Belfast for £7 2s 0d, and coping stones came from Mr Murdoch of Tardree for £7 18s 6d. The project left a credit balance of £9 1s 6d.

William Galt, reputedly the first Sunday School teacher at Doagh, is buried in the graveyard. Galt, who lived in Doagh towards the end of the eighteenth century, established the Doagh Book Club in 1768, a library that was destroyed around 1798. Shortly after opening the club, he began instructing the youth of the village and district in reading, writing and arithmetic, using Sunday as the day for teaching. His gravestone records this as the beginning of "the first Sunday School."

The name Doagh derives from the Irish word "Dua," meaning a high mound.