Located in a tourist area, local facilities include a pharmacy, three primary schools, several hotels and B&Bs, a post office, supermarket and other shops, church, community centre, credit union, several pubs, horse-riding, golf course and a crèche.

[citation needed] Kylemore Abbey is also two miles away and was the main place of education for teenage girls in the area until it was closed (as a school) in 2010.

The house was sold before the Irish War of Independence to surgeon, poet, novelist and senator Oliver St. John Gogarty.

[citation needed] One of Marconi's first radio receiving stations was built at Tooreena on the peninsula and operated for a short time.

They preached along the coast of Conmhaícne Mara, lending their names to holy wells at Renvyle, Cleggan, Aillebrack, Doon Hill, Mweenish Island and a cursing stone.

Writing in A Guide To Lough Corrib's Early Monastic Sites, Anthony Previté suggests that they finally settled on Mason Island.