Activities
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With its fantastic Atlantic location, blue flag beaches and magnificent mountain landscape, Achill provides an unrivalled arena for outdoor activities and water sports for all types. Achill’s spectacular setting has also proved to be a creative retreat for artists and writers.
Water sports available on Achill Island include surfing, canoeing, kayaking and windsurfing. Equipment hire and tuition is available from a number of local providers and schools for all these activities.
Achill offers free, open access for hill walking as much of the higher land is held in commonage.
The waters around Achill Island are home to a wide range of sea life and varieties of fish, making the area one of the best sea angling destinations in Ireland . Whether sea angling from a charter boat or casting from the shore, fishing in Achill is a popular outdoor activity.
Achill offers a nine-hole golf course at Keel that is open to visitors at a reasonable rate. A nine-hole pitch and put course is also available locally.