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Explore the Opportunity of a Lifetime: Transform the Achill Archaeological Field School into a Multi-Disciplinary Educational Campus in Ireland’s Scenic West Nestled on stunning Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland, the Achill Archaeological Field School has been a beacon for archaeology students worldwide for over 30 years. Established in 1991, this campus is now available for sale or lease, presenting a truly unique opportunity to create an educational hub that… Read More »For Sale or Lease: Achill Field School

Details of 2024 courses available at Achill Archaeological Field School have been revealed, and applications are now open! For 2024 we will be hosting a two-week accredited course on Archaeological Field Studies, offering 3 Semester Credits (6 ECTS credits) to undergraduate and graduate students. We also have a four-week course offering the same Archaeological Field Studies module along with a Data Analysis module, providing a combined total of 6 Semester… Read More »Applications Open for 2024 Season

As an extra bonus for signing up to our six-week course ‘Excavation & Recording 1‘, all students on this course can avail of a half-price one-day guided tour of archaeological sites of interest in County Sligo. The day tour, including lunch, is offer free-of-charge to students who enroll on this course before 1st March 2024. The tour will focus on two sites: Carrowmore Passage Tomb megalithic cemetery – 6,000 years… Read More »One Day Guided Tour Half-Price for Students on Excavation & Recording 1 Course

The Martin McDonagh movie ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, which was largely filmed on location here on Achill Island, has won three Golden Globe awards. Filming took place in late summer 2021 at six locations on Achill Island, as well as on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands in Co. Galway. Among the locations used on Achill was Keem Bay, some 4.5km from our campus in Dooagh, and which has been… Read More »Banshees of Inisherin, Filmed on Achill Island, Wins 3 Golden Globes

COVID–19 UPDATE: 12 April 2021 It is with much regret and great sadness that as a result of the unprecedented and unpredictable conditions arising from the continuing spread of Covid-19, also known as the Coronavirus, that we announce today, in consideration of the health and safety of our student participants and staff members, the cancellation of the 2021 Achill Archaeological Field School program. Despite our hope and strong desire to offer… Read More »2021 Season Cancelled due to COVID-19

What was it like to live on an island off Ireland’s Atlantic coast in the eighteenth century? Popular images of this place and time are often grim. The looming spectre of the mid-ninteenth century Famine, and echoes of the Cromwellian dispossessions of the 1650s colour our perceptions of the period. How did people really experience it? Where historical documents are largely penned by biased outsiders, archaeology provides a unique methodology… Read More »Pot-boilers, limpets, and wine bottles: Digging Caraun Point 2018