Baile Slievemore
Self catering holiday home in Achill
Local amenities

This is an ideal location for a family holiday with the following attractions:

The Country Market
The Country Market

Every tFriday during the summer season.Goods such as Home-made foods, home-grown produce, crafts, plants, etc are sold. Ideal gifts to bring home.

Culture
 

Achill has a rich cultural heritage which is expressed by its people in their everyday living. Join in this expression of life in the music, song, dance, writings and language as experienced in the Scoil Acla Summer Schoolduring the first two weeks of August.

Scoil Acla
 

Lectures: The Scoil Acla Summer programme always includes a varied and interesting series of lectures and readings held at various venues throughout the area. Each year the lectures are thematically linked and they present various aspects of Achill life, history and culture.

Painting and the Visual Arts:Over the years painting exhibitions at various venues have been regular features of the Scoil Acla programme. Courses in drawing, painting, ceramics and metal sculpture have featured.

Set-dancing: A weekend set-dancing workshop is an annual feature of the summer school, with workshop sessions, ceilis and plenty of craic! Scoil Acla organises weekly set-dancing classes during the winter months (ie. Sept. to May).

Historical Intresrts
 

There are several sites of historic interest in the Achill area. The following is an outline summary of some of them.

Kildownet Castle, in reality a tower house, which stands overlooking the southern entrance to the sound at Cloughmore. It is a fifteenth century fortified structure, reputed to have been built by Grace O Malley

Kildownet Graveyard, at Cloughmore, containing famine graves, and the graves of victims of the Clew Bay Drowning Tragedy and the Kirkintollach Fire Tragedy. Near the shore is St. Dympnas Holy Well.

Michael Davitt Bridge, joining Achill Island to the mainland at Achill Sound. First opened in 1888 by Michael Davitt.

The Colony, location for Edward Nangles Achill Missionary Settlement, dating from 1831. Some of the original structures remain. Site of Achills first hotel.

The Deserted Village - at Slievemore. Once a vibrant village, abandoned towards the end of the last century in the wake of famine, eviction and emigration.

Boycotts House, overlooking Dooagh, where Captain Charles Boycott had his home in Achill for about twenty years.

Archaeology
 

Sites of archaeological interest abound on Achill, some of them having been recorded a century or so ago by Westropp and Wood-Martin. Visit megalithic tombs, standing stones, a crannóg site, holy wells, early Christian settlements, deserted villages and famine ruins. Evidence suggests human settlement here since 4,000BC. but many sites remain unexcavated. An archaeological summer field school, now in its tenth year, is based at the Deserted Village on Slievemore.

Walking
 

Croagh Patrick - Ireland’s holy mountain and a challenge to any walker.

Watersports
Achill is now regarded as one of Europes best locations for diving. With safe, clean waters the area is a divers paradise, where wreck sites, wall sites and shelf and shallow sites can be explored. Scuba diving, open water diving and deep-sea diving may be enjoyed. Expert instruction and specialist equipment available.