 On the road from Dooagh beach towards Lough Corrymore stands Corrymore House, once the home of Captain Charles Boycott, a British land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland as part of a campaign for agrarian tenants' rights in 1880 gave the English language the verb "to boycott", meaning "to ostracise".Captain Boycott moved to Corrymore House after his residence at Keem was burnt down.The American artist Robert Henri also lived there at one time, having bought the house in 1924.