Mayo Mountain Rescue service called on the Irish Coast Guard Rescue 118 helicopter this afternoon to airlift a woman who sustained a head injury after a fall, while on the cone section of Croagh Patrick.
After the alarm was raised with gardaí at 1.30pm, the team's incident commander tasked a first response and a full stretcher party to the location.
The cloud base was down to the first station on Croagh Patrick.
Coastguard helicopter R118 was then tasked to the incident and was able to land below the cloud ceiling, and their paramedic located the injured woman on the path and provided first aid treatment.
MMRT personnel assisted the crew, and the woman was airlifted to Castlebar for further treatment.
The rescue operation took over two hours to complete.
