Achill Island
Achill Island is an island just off the coast of County Mayo in the west of Ireland, linked by a bridge to the mainland. It's Ireland's largest island, with some farming but mostly uncultivated heath and hills.Photo: Turkishbob, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Hootsmac, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Localities in the Area
Achill Sound
Photo: David Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gob an Choire or Gob a' Choire, formerly anglicised as Gubacurra, is a Gaeltacht village in County Mayo, Ireland.
Dooega
Photo: Steve Edge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dumha Éige is a village in the south west of Achill Island on the west coast of Ireland in County Mayo.
Dugort
Dugort, sometimes spelled Doogort, is a historical village on Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland.Achill Island
- Type: Island
- Description: largest of the Irish isles, situated off the west coast of Ireland
- Category: landform
- Location: County Mayo, Connacht, West Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.9625° or 53° 57' 45" northLongitude
-9.9903° or 9° 59' 25" westPopulation
2,570Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)Open Location Code
9C5GX275+2VGeoNames ID
2967082Wikidata ID
Q631581Achill Island Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Basque: Achill uhartea
- Breton: Acaill
- Catalan: Acaill
- Cebuano: Achill Island
- Chinese: 阿基爾島
- Czech: Acaill
- Danish: Achill Island
- Dutch: Achill
- Dutch: Achill Island
- Egyptian Arabic: اكيل
- Egyptian Arabic: اكيل ايسلاند
- English: Achill
- Esperanto: Insulo Akla
- French: Île d'Achill
- French: île d'Achill
- Galician: Acaill
- Galician: Achill - Acaill
- Georgian: აკილი
- German: Acaill
- German: Achill
- German: Achill Island
- Greek: Άκιλ
- Indonesian: Pulau Achill
- Irish: Acaill
- Italian: Achill Island
- Japanese: アキル島
- Korean: 아킬섬
- Latvian: Akila
- Lithuanian: Akailo sala
- Manx: Aghill
- Norwegian: Achill
- Norwegian Bokmål: Achill
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Achill
- Polish: Achill
- Polish: Wyspa Achill
- Portuguese: Achill
- Russian: Акилл
- Scottish Gaelic: Acaill
- Scottish Gaelic: Oileán Acla
- Slovak: Acaill
- Spanish: Isla Achill
- Swedish: Achill
- Tamil: அக்கில் தீவு
- Tamil: அச்சில் தீவு
- Ukrainian: Акілл
- Welsh: Ynys Achill
In the Area
- GarryncladdyLocality
- GubbaunLocality
- MeenacloghfinnyLocality
- CarnamuntermaddenLocality
- SaliaLocality
- MweelinLocality
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Achill Island. Photo: Hootsmac, CC BY-SA 4.0.