Achill Island

Located off the west coast Achill is connected to the mainland by a bridge and is Ireland’s largest island.  A Gaeltacht area (traditional Irish-speaking region) the island offers dramatic, untouched landscape at the edge of the Atlantic with some of Ireland’s highest sea cliffs.

Achill features the iconic Keem Bay, a Blue-Flag beach, which was named one of the world’s top 100 beaches by the Lonely Planet, a deserted famine village, a megalithic tomb dating from the 3rd or 4th century BC and remains of several promontory forts along the coast. 

The geography of Achill is made up of a combination of glacial and coastal features as well as two-thirds of the island is covered by peat bog.  The island’s rugged terrain provides a powerful sense of remoteness, and its epic scenery captured the harsh beauty of the rural Irish landscape and provided a compelling backdrop for the award-winning film The Banshees of Inisherin.  

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