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Achill Island (/ ˈ æ k əl /; Irish: Acaill, Oileán Acla) is an island off the west coast of Ireland in the historical barony of Burrishoole, County Mayo. It is the largest of the Irish isles and has an area of approximately 148 km 2 (57 sq mi).
Edward Nangle (1799 – 9 September 1883) was a Church of Ireland minister and the founder of the Achill Mission Colony. He established a Protestant mission on Achill Island, County Mayo, in 1834 and worked there for eighteen years with the aim of bringing Protestantism to the Native Irish Christians who were impoverished in large part due to the Penal Law policies of the Protestant Ascendancy ...
Dugort (Irish: Dumha Goirt, meaning 'sandbank of the field'), [1] sometimes spelled Doogort, is a historical village on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland. [2] It is next to Slievemore mountain. There are two blue flag beaches in Dugort: Silver Strand which is located at the foot of the Slievemore Mountain and the Golden Strand which is ...
Aicill seems to be a descriptive term applied to mountainous country. Umall means low, and applies in this sense to the country lying east of Clew Bay, as Aicill applies to the parts lying north and south of the bay. The title may be translated as King of Highland and Lowland. Aicill survives in Achill Island and Curraun peninsula. The term was ...
Access to the island is from Cé Mhór, in the village of An Chloich Mhór (Cloghmore), by local arrangement. A lighthouse on Acaill Bheag's southern tip was completed in 1965. A comprehensive book about the life and times of the island and the people and way of life there, "Achillbeg - The Life of an Island", by Jonathan Beaumont was published ...
Authorities reported widespread power outages.This footage shows rough seas on Achill Island, located off the west coast of Ireland. Credit: Katrina Gallagher via Storyful.
Achill Missionary Herald and Western Witness (1837–1869) was an Irish Provincial Newspaper. Founded by Rev. Edward Nangle as a means of furthering his Protestant evangelical views and his Achill Mission Colony on Achill Island in the predominantly Roman Catholic province of Connaught , Ireland .
Rails to Achill (2001) [1] describes the history of the Westport to Achill railway, which ran from 1894 to 1937.Achillbeg: The Life of an Island (2005) chronicles life on the island of Achillbeg, which was depopulated in 1965. [2] Research for the latter book was funded by the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland. [3]