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Teach Cruachán Large-group Holiday Home will be your comfortable base on Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way. Only 5km from iconic Keem Bay on Achill Island, County Mayo, Teach Cruachán can accommodate up to 12 guests in its five guest rooms, each with TV, ensuite shower, toilet and wash basin. Three of the rooms have ocean views.
You'll make yourself completely at home in breathtakingly beautiful Dooagh, which boasts a great pub/restaurant, a cozy local pub, a gourmet shop with great coffee and homebaking, and even an old ballroom of romance that hosts music concerts and events. Dooagh, just 5km from Keem Bay and 3km from Keel, is also the home of the new Dooagh Folk Festival, Captain Boycott's Estate, Scoil Acla - the oldest summer school in Ireland, the highest sea cliffs in Western Europe, the lowest Corrie lake in Europe, the only basking shark fishery in Ireland (now obsolete), an amethyst quarry, and the list goes on.
The individually styled en-suite guest rooms in this top-rated former bed and breakfast are quiet and comfortable, and you will have access to free WiFi throughout the house. Hotel quality beds and furnishings and homely seaside styling are evident throughout. Take advantage of the fully equipped semi-professional kitchen, relax in the living/dining room that overlooks the Atlantic, curl up in the inside lounge with a log burning stove or sit on the south-facing terrace at the front of the house to watch dolphins and basking sharks in Dooagh Bay.
Owners Michael and Roisin live in a fully-separate apartment adjacent to the holiday home. They are experienced hosts of many years who will help make your stay memorable, and they will be available by call or text if you need any assistance.
You can now book weekly stays in Teach Cruachán here on the official website for the best online rates. Availability is open from March, 2025. Please send any advance enquiries you have to [email protected]. Remember, the best rates are only available on this website. Booking through online travel agents is more expensive.
Achill Bikes bicycle hire also operates at the rear of the holiday home, and each weekly let receives free one-day standard bicycle hire for everyone in the group (value €30 each). There is parking for four vehicles at the front of the home reserved for residents. There is an additional space at the rear entrance and ample parking further back, if required, but please be aware that they are accessed using a driveway shared with Achill Bikes and its customers, so take care.
When Hollywood Came to Achill Island
Local harbour transformed into film set for The Banshees of Inisherin
A new village was built in Purteen Harbour as a film set. The two-storey building was the shop and post office.
The old fishermen's sheds in Purteen were used as a base for the new village.
 Many of the important scenes were filmed at nearby Keem Beach
There was huge excitement on Achill in autumn 2021, when Martin McDonagh's film The Banshees of Inisherin was filmed at several locations around the island. It was released to great acclaim almost exactly a year later, in October 2022. While it received many awards, including a Best Actor Golden Globe for Colin Farrell, Oscar didn't make an appearance at all, a slight that disappointed all of us.
Several crew members stayed in Teach Cruachán during set construction and filming because three of the most important sets were located nearby: 1) Keem Bay, where Brendan Gleeson's character lived, 2) Corrymore Lake, where the 'Banshee' lived, and 3) Purteen Harbour, which was transformed into a fishing village with a shop and post office. J J Devine's Pub was built on the Atlantic Drive near Cloughmore, overlooking the wild Atlantic, and there were scenes shot at St Thomas's Church in Dugort. The sets were all taken down straight after filming finished, so apart from the church there are no buildings to be seen anymore. When you watch the film you can see how realistic they were; even close inspection didn't reveal they were only made of plywood and plaster. The interiors were functional and the characters could have a real pint of Guinness in Devine's Pub. To add to the excitement, another film was made in Achill and Currane at the same time by acclaimed Finnish director Klaus Härö. That meant that between the two productions there were about 350 cast and crew members staying on the island, as well as the usual couple of thousand visitors. This film has also received great reviews, and was released in December 2022. 
A scene from My Sailor My Love, filmed on Achill Island
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Dolphins often visit Dooagh Bay, and giant Basking Sharks visit in May and June.
These videos were all filmed from Teach Cruachán:
These videos were all filmed from Teach Cruachán:
See if you can spot the Basking Shark swimming slowly in the bay!
Here's what the Atlantic Ocean looks like from Teach Cruachán at the tail end of a storm.
"Michael and Roisin were great hosts. They made us feel very welcome and nothing was too much trouble. Their home is very pretty, homely, comfortable and very clean. It has great views..." Karen O. Huddersfield, England
Watch the dolphins in Dooagh Bay
Relax in the lounge and keep an eye on the sea for dolphins
Teach Cruachán has uninterrupted views of the Atlantic Ocean, and you could even see dolphins or basking sharks from the living/dining room.
ALSO AVAILABLE ON SITE: Bicycle Hire with Achill Bikes
Achill Bikes offers bicycle and accessory hire,
and has fantastic European-built electric bicycles that flatten Achill's hills!
Plenty of off-street parking is available for vehicles of all sizes.
and has fantastic European-built electric bicycles that flatten Achill's hills!
Plenty of off-street parking is available for vehicles of all sizes.
