I highly recommend staying at Pat’s cottage in Keel. An enormous amount of space. 2 1/2 bathrooms and four bedrooms. A big kitchen and a washer and dryer and clothesline in the yard. Two small families could easily share it.
We had no car but got there just fine on the train from Dublin and a bus from Westport and then walked everywhere on foot.
Keel, like all of Achill Island, is such a beautiful place. Sheep everywhere. Sky everywhere. Clouds for days. The blue bay, the white sand.
People were very kind to us everywhere we went (as everywhere in Ireland) though they’ve seen their share of tourists from the States. We were fortunate to have sunshine. Some very good food in the restaurants there as well! I can recall Bervie’s and Beehive Bakery off the top of my head.