Things to do
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Croaghaun
A mountain of six hundred and eighty-eight metres whose northern face falls straight into the Atlantic as the third highest sea cliff in Europe, invisible from any road and reached only on foot from Keem. There is no path and the cliff edge is undercut.
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Deserted Village
About a hundred roofless stone houses in a line along the southern slope of Slievemore, occupied into the nineteenth century and used as booley huts for summer grazing after that. It is a short walk uphill from the road at Dugort with no fence and no fee.
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Keel Beach
Three kilometres of sand in front of the island's main village, with a reliable beach break and the Cathedral Rocks and Minaun cliffs closing the eastern end. The surf school and the campsite both work from it.
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Keem Bay
A horseshoe of white sand at the end of the island road, reached down a cliff-cut single track from Croaghaun, and once a basking shark fishery. Parking at the top is very limited and the road has passing places rather than two lanes.
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Kildavnet Tower
A fifteenth-century O'Malley tower house on the shore at Achill Sound, associated with the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, standing beside a graveyard that holds the Kirkintilloch fire victims of 1937. It is open and free.