877677 The Colony, Achill Island, Ireland (b/w photo) by Irish Photographer (19th Century); Sean Sexton Collection; (add.info.: Achill Mission or \'the Colony\' at Dugort. In 1831 the Church of Ireland Reverend Edward Nangle founded a proselytising mission at Dugort. The Mission included schools, cottages, an orphanage, an infirmary and a guesthouse. The Colony was very successful for a time and regularly produced a newspaper called the Achill Herald and Western Witness. The Achill Mission began to decline slowly after Nangle was moved from Achill and was finally closed in the 1880s. Nangle died in 1883.); Sean Sexton Collection; Irish, out of copyright.