Figure 1: Location of Achill Island in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland (Image credit: Shannon Dunn, Chuck Meide and K. Sikes). Clickable image providing a 'tour' of the island (Image credits: authors) (Achill Beg | Achill Head | Achill Sound | Aighia Eirini | Annagh | Blacksod Bay | Bull's Mouth | Cloghmore | Corraun | Dooagh | Dugort | Keel | Keem | Kildownet | Purteen Harbour | Saddle Head | Signal Tower | Slievemore)
Figure 2: Three women with baskets gathering seaweed on the west coast of Ireland, c. 1900-1920 (Image credit: This image is reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. Further permission is required for reuse.).
Figure 3: Foreground: two Achill yawls with cargos of turf. Background: a curragh is towed by a Galway hooker. c. 1890s (Image credit: Lawrence Collection, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. Further permission is required for reuse.)
Figure 4: The Achill Mission at Dugort, between 1880 and 1900 (Image credit: Robert French, Lawrence Collection, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. Further permission is required for reuse.)
Figure 5: Position of the Keel Coastguard boathouse amid the pre-existing curragh pens of Portnaluinge (Image credit: Chuck Meide, Sam Turner and Kevin Cullen)
Figure 6: Woman driving cattle on Achill Island, c. 1900-1920 (Image credit: Eason Collection, National Library of Ireland. Further permission is required for reuse.)
Figure 7: Curraghs and the fishing community at Dooagh village on Achill, c. 1890 (Image credit: Robert French, Lawrence Collection, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland. Further permission is required for reuse.)