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My restored and colourised c1890 photo of the Achill Mission or ‘the Colony’ at Dugortm on Achill Island in Co. Mayo featuring St. Thomas’s Church designed by architect Joseph Welland in 1851 with the Slievemore mountain in the background. pic.twitter.com/SRpEqqXCqT— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) December 2, 2020
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beautiful place
Edward Nangle started the Achill mission at Dugort. In the 1950s the German writer Heinrich Boell lived in a cottage at Dugort and wrote his widely read Irisches Tagebuch. He noted the eerie remains of a deserted famine village not far from his home.
https://www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/edward-nangle-the-achill-island-mission/
The Deserted Village at Slievemore, Achill Island, that Boell wrote about, is actually a booley village and the cottages were, apparently, still used ‘within living memory’. Its history goes back to the 12th Century. As Gabby says, the ruins are eerie, in bad weather in particular. Well worth a visit. I’m disgusted with myself, though, that I didn’t know about Nangle’s Colony in spite of being a regular visitor both to Achill and to other Colonies. Must go to see it soon – thanks, Rob Cross and Gabby, for bringing it to my attention.
Anyone else think that Joseph Wellend makes a great pornstar name?