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Achill [Irish,=eagle], island, 56 sq mi (145 sq km), Co. Mayo, W Republic of Ireland; the largest island of Ireland. It is connected with the mainland by a bridge over Achill Sound. The rugged island is barren; there is fishing and subsistence farming. Many small villages are resorts; Keel and Doogort are the chief towns. Achill is known for its magnificent cliffs; Slievemore, at the north end, rises to 2,204 ft (672 m).

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Achill. A large, mountainous island, 15 miles by 4, off the west coast of Co. Mayo. The hawk or crow of Achill was supposed to have lived for thousands of years, and could remember the remote past, which he details to Fintan mac Bóchra.

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See Eleanor Knott , ‘The Hawk of Achill…’,Folk-Lore, 43 (1932), 376–409

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