Agree about The Dooks.
Think there are many examples in Ireland of golf coming to communities as the result of donated labor and consensus type routings.
Ballyliffin Old Links was a 9 hole course in 1947 when it started. In the mid 60s, members enhanced the course to 18 holes. Some current members who were and are local farmers donated labor and contributed to the design, construction, and development. The cost at the time was 6000 pounds, according to the book Links of Heaven. Due to the use of mostly donated labor, fairways were defined and shaped by manual grass cutting, often with hand mowers or push type power mowers. As the result, fairways maintained natural humps and bumps.
Nick Faldo took a fondness to The Old Links. He tried to buy the club but did not close the deal when members elected not to sell. He did some work on bunkering. Upon completion, he played an exhibition with then 14 or 15 year old Rory McIlroy, who set a course record.
There is a second course, co-designed by Pat Ruddy, The Glashedy course. It was built in 1995 at a cost of 1.5 million Euros.
Both are rated about 5 on the Doak scale. Rankings in Ireland place Glashedy in top 10 and The Old Links in the top 20.
Eddie Hackett is credited with designing Carne, although he was deeply religious and affirmed something to the effect that God made it and he found it. Like other Irish Links courses, community members wanting a community course, donated labor constructed it with minimal earth moving.