Editing Achill Island (section)

===Immigration===
In the 17th and 18th centuries, there was migration to Achill from other parts of Ireland, including from [[Ulster]], due to the political and religious turmoil of the time. For a period, there were two different [[dialect]]s of Irish being spoken on Achill. This led to several 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 has been described as having an [[Ulster Irish]] [[superstratum]] on top of a northern [[Connacht Irish]] substratum.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo |first=Gerard |last=Stockman |series=Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B. |volume=2 |publisher=Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast |year=1974 |chapter=Preface |page=II}}</ref> In the 19th and early 20th centuries, seasonal migration of farm workers to [[East Lothian]] to pick [[potato]]es took place; these groups of 'tattie howkers' were known as Achill workers, although not all were from Achill, and were organised for potato merchants by gaffers or gangers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Holmes |first=Heather |title='As good as a holiday': Potato harvesting in the Lothians from 1870 to the present |publisher=Tuckwell |year=2000 |isbn= |location=East Linton, East Lothian |pages=185–219}}</ref> Groups travelled from farm to farm to harvest the crop and were allocated basic accommodation. On 15 September 1937, ten young migrant potato pickers from Achill died in a fire at [[Kirkintilloch]] in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Kirkintilloch Tragedy, 1937 – The Irish Story |url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2012/09/24/the-kirkintilloch-tragedy-1937/#.Y-5FOnbP2M8 |access-date=2023-02-16 |language=en-GB |archive-date=16 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216150511/https://www.theirishstory.com/2012/09/24/the-kirkintilloch-tragedy-1937/#.Y-5FOnbP2M8 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Kirkintilloch Disaster |url=https://www.rte.ie//archives/category/disasters/2017/0917/902699-kirkintilloch-disaster/ |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=RTÉ Archives |language=en |archive-date=16 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230216150510/https://www.rte.ie/archives/category/disasters/2017/0917/902699-kirkintilloch-disaster/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Achill was connected to the mainland by [[Michael Davitt Bridge]], a [[bridge]] connecting [[Achill Sound]] and [[Polranny]], in 1887.