placenamesAchill
Acaill
Lewis recorded schooling at four named places and two additional pay schools.
Recorded locationAchill53.94250° N · 9.97839° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded location · Logainm.ie
The name
A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.
Recorded forms
- Acaill · Irish · main form · validated name
- Achill · English · main form
Place & story
Schools in 1837
Samuel Lewis listed schools at Dugarth, Slievemore, Keel and Cashel, teaching about 380 children collectively in 1837. Two additional pay schools had eighty boys and six girls between them. His parish account covered Achill and Achillbeg islands together with the Corraun peninsula; the attendance figures belong to that wider parish, rather than to a single village or mission school. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Civil parish
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Burrishoole
- Coordinates
- 53.94250, -9.97839 (approximate)
- Mapped area
- 215.43 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1748 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Achill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Achill, a parish: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837) · Samuel Lewis
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.