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In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was much migration to Achill from other parts of Ireland, particularly Ulster, due to the political and religious turmoil of the time.

For a while there were two different dialects of Irish being spoken on Achill.

This led to many townlands being recorded as having two names during the 1824 Ordnance Survey, and some maps today give different names for the same place.

Achill Irish still has many traces of Ulster Irish.